Acts
Draft, then send
The machine writes; you edit, and you press send. No exceptions survive contact with a signature.
The machine writes your outbound faster and often better than you would, and none of that changes whose name is on the send. The working loop is draft, edit, send, with the last two verbs permanently human. Editing is not proofreading: it is making the words yours, cutting what you wouldn't say, and owning what remains. The send is the fifth law in miniature, exercised one message at a time.
Drafting well means briefing the machine on the human context the message must survive: who is reading, what register lands, what must not be said. A technically perfect message in the wrong voice fails socially, and the machine cannot feel that failure coming. You can. That judgment is the part of outbound that was never delegated.
How to practice it
Draft to edit, not to send.
Ask for a draft you can cut down. The machine's version is raw material, not a finished act.
Brief the social physics.
Who reads it, what tone lands, what to avoid: the machine writes to the brief, and the brief is yours.
The send is a decision.
However perfect the draft, transmission is a separate, deliberate, human act. Every time.
Read as the recipient.
Before sending, read it once as them. The machine optimizes the asked-for; you catch the felt.
Deep scripture: Codeuteronomy VI — The irreversible act belongs to the human hand