Knowledge Work Is Dying—Here’s What Comes Next

Whether repressed or managed, avoided emotions don’t go away. They return in a pattern I call the “golden algorithm.” It goes like this:

1. Name an unwanted emotion in your life.


2. List the ways you try to avoid it.


3. Notice that every way you try to avoid it, you actually create it.

Wisdom is how to live. It is the residue of mistakes, metabolized by time and reflection. It can’t be rushed, and it can’t be copy-pasted. It is an embodied—as in felt in the body—experience, guidance from the inside.