People ask which jobs are safe from AI the way passengers on a sinking ship ask which deck is safest. It is the wrong unit of analysis. “Job” is a legal and HR container; “work” is a bundle of tasks; “tasks” are what automation eats. Generative AI does not need to “replace your profession” to destroy your job. It only needs to replace the parts of your week that justify … Read the rest
Steroids are the ultimate “life hack” for people who hate the one thing that actually builds physiques: time. They work. That is why they are tempting. They turn the dial on muscle and strength faster than your patience can. And that is exactly why they are a bad trade for casual lifters: you are paying for speed with systems you only notice when they fail—heart, vessels, hormones, mood, fertility.
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Work, in the long view, is a moving target. For most of our species’ history we did not “have jobs”; we had tasks that followed daylight, seasons, and stomachs. Hunter-gatherer life combined bursts of high effort with long stretches of social time—mending, storytelling, tool care, childcare. Ethnographic estimates vary, but the pattern is consistent: subsistence came in pulses, not in 8-hour rectangles. The body we still carry—ultradian focus cycles, circadian … Read the rest
Even if you see that they are stars, they demotivate other people and decrease overall efficiency. #artefacts #noassholes #productivity #assholes
… Read the restContent advisory 14+ There were times when libraries experienced heavy traffic as readers pop in to find the latest release. Days when one could hardly go to bed without reading a chapter or two, but what is happening nowadays? More time is spent on leisure and scrolling up and down a screen. That doesn’t mean that books are not treasured. There are few serious readers left. Are you one of … Read the rest
