After thinking a lot on this recently, I really think the world will end up more and more bimodal (s/o @maxbittker for that framing) On one end: you can go full throttle mold-man-to-machine, subsuming yourself to its mechanical, uncomfortable needs to do good industrial grade quantitative/logical work, or risk falling behind On the total other end, you can lean fully into the intuitive, deeply felt, and experiential. These have traditionally been artists, writers, painters, etc, but I've always found that distinction too narrow and limiting. I think Flow (in the original, beyond-productivity sense) is the closest thing here. This exists at high and low planes. More on this in an upcoming woolgather.sh issue. This may sound amish or woo-woo or naive (perhaps it is), but I assure you it's not, and in fact is imo the more comfortable and durable posture to hold. Ofc I've been humbled enough recently to not pretend like this will be entirely unaffected by machine intelligence of the future — but what you particularly experience, and your intrinsic enthrallment and self revelations, remain untouched even at the total crazy limit It's to say there is a solid, way more leisurely and full-bodied alternative to the machine crush Happy to chat about it/DMs open. I think it can sometimes be hard to have level-headed conversations on these topics, and/or feel awkwardly sci-fi/radical for trying to predict/assume/plan for the more extreme end of future conditions

From morning journaling today