Elon #Musk just said on CNBC something I’d been thinking about a lot:
“If we do get to this sort of magic genie situation, where you can ask the #AI for anything. And let’s say, even if it’s a benign scenario… How do we actually find #fulfillment? How do we find #meaning in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Where does this voguish idea of everyone becoming a glamorous and fun #entrepreneur come from? Sorry, but:
1) most people are not born with the #DNA required to run a business;
2) while being an entrepreneur adds a lot of positive nouns to your life, like “#freedom”, “creation” and “#meaning”… the package also includes “jealousy”, “discrimination”, “#stress”, “disappointment”, “responsibility” and “cash flow management”.
OK, the “responsibility” is for the non-psychopaths among us. 😂
“Four Thousand Weeks” by Oliver Burkeman — a very basic rehash of well-known truths like “we are #mortal, life has no #meaning in the grand scheme of the Universe, people don’t care about what you do, so do whatever you want to do, one step at a time, before you die.” 🤦🏻♂️
#books
Most #disasters are man-made.
One of the endless wars and “armed conflicts”. Chernobyl. 2008 financial collapse. Covid-19 pandemic. #ClimateChange. And, yes, even your failed #relationships or persistent high blood pressure. 😕
Doesn’t it seem to you that we humans LOVE creating problems out of nowhere and then attempt to solve them with great pain and effort? Is that the #meaning of our lives we hate and fear to admit? 🤔
#Dialogue is the process of making the invisible — visible. Getting undiscussables on the table. Sharing #meaning. Sharing hopes, desires, fears, dreams, concerns, problems… rather than going to silence with them.
Do you pursue dialogue? Or do you hide in silence altogether?
Perhaps under the guise of a routine discussion of some news on social media?
Do you think #meaning produces an #emotion? Or, absence of meaning (#information) produces an emotion?
People are so busy from high school to retirement… have no time to search for the #meaning / #purpose of their life until it’s too late.
I’ve only now realized my #parents never told me what #happiness is and what I need to do for it. Nor did we talk about #meaning in #life.
Radical #science. #Stress is good, if you think it is (or if it’s a byproduct of #meaning): ted.com/talks/kelly_mc… But what about cortisol?
An absolute must-read on #meaning, #purpose, #creation and #contribution in our #capitalist world. On bullshit jobs: strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
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