Knowledge Work Is Dying—Here’s What Comes Next

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.

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.

For example: I don’t want to feel like a failure —> I play it safe... See more

And when knowledge is no longer scarce, what remains valuable? Wisdom. You can get answers from AI, but how you use those answers takes wisdom.

Facts, skills, and expertise will be increasingly commoditized, and even the smartest of us will be replaceable .

It’s easy to overlook how radical that is. Our entire society is built around knowledge as a scarce, precious resource.