The future doesn’t care
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The future doesn’t care
Not knowing what’s coming next—which is the situation you’re always in, with regard to the future—presents an ideal opportunity for choosing curiosity (wondering what might happen next) over worry (hoping that a certain specific thing will happen next, and fearing it might not) whenever you can.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
The Stoics understood something fundamental: you can’t control what happens to you, but you can control how prepared you are to face it. You can’t stop AI from advancing. You can’t prevent the disruption that’s coming. But you can do the hard work of imagining what that disruption looks like, and you can start asking yourself the questions that... See more
Who are you without a job?
The only thing you control is your next action.You can’t change the past. It’s already happened, and nothing you do will change that. If you don’t like what happened, you can avoid responsibility by looking for somebody to blame, or make other excuses. You can spend hours beating yourself up and wishing you had done things differently. But to get... See more