I hope you're right And I'm working on it Can we shift society as a whole in the abundance direction, instead of recreating the old pattern but bigger/worse

Yes, I have so much time now I honestly feel like we're entering a new time of leisure where people are just talking to their agents to steer the direction of our work, while they work in the background 24/7 Like @felixrieseberg did while building his new homepage literally on a bike ride while talking to Claude on iOS I already kinda did this with scheduled cron jobs for years, my sites were almost fully automated, but I still had to add features or fix bugs sometimes, but now for a year or more that part is also fully automated by AI So then we just have so much leisure time suddenly available, that we can spend time with the ppl we love, do more fun things, play games, work on our health/fitness, be outside more, etc. Some of that freed up time now goes into new projects, but there's a certain level of creative expression for me where it's sufficient and I am starting more and more to see I am spending that way from a computer screen too, and prefer it that way Maybe this is the new time where we can finally live not work, as it was predicted 96 years ago by Keynes. That prediction never really came to fruition though because the automation that was invented just moved the work up to higher level (like from making actual things to financial, managerial, administrative, etc.) and people chose to just consume more, so they had to work more again! But maybe now is different though, it definitely feels different to me

Every creator is feeling this, but no one is saying it: A lot of the strategies that used to work for creators aren’t working anymore. It’s harder to get the same attention you used to. And you have two options: → You can pack it up and quit → Or you can adapt, meet the moment, and keep going For me, adapting means two things: 1.) Focus less on the outcome 2.) Change what I’m optimizing for Instead of focusing my attention on how many people see something, I’m focusing my attention on the people who do. Attention is harder to earn right now. But you can still make something worth paying attention to.

courage is in shorter supply than genius

Before I started @theboardtalks, I went to about 50 events in a short stretch and made a rubric. An actual document. What did I hate. What did I love. What does nobody do that I wish somebody would. And more. I designed my event by subtraction, taking out every single thing that made me want to leave early, and then adding a few wildcards that just sounded fun. That's the whole methodology. I didn't read a book on community building. I just paid very close attention to my own boredom, dissatisfaction, or cringe.

i swear the most effective way to get good at anything is to find comfort (or even joy) in not being good at it yet (then many playful reps, but that's inevitable after step 1)

We do not need one more study looking into what SA does to people. What we need is a ton of research into what’s happening inside people who SA people. Since the 1960’s when sexual assault first started being understood as a traumatic event, there has been 100’s of 1000’s of 1/2