Consequences
Outcomes of disconnection
Loneliness, attention loss, social decline, emotional flattening
Consequences
It’s interesting how we keep removing effort from our lives only for the market to sell it back to us. We’re about to outsource huge parts of our thinking, and I wonder what the next paid version of “mental effort” will look like?
I love exercise, don’t get me wrong. But every time we make life easier, someone finds a... See more
Tuğba Avcisubstack.com
Speedism is the new linguistic default.
We don’t just want our deliveries fast, we want our words, our thoughts, delivered yesterday.
'ASAP.' 'Ping me.' 'Need now.' But at what cost?
My next post will be on this!
Tuğba Avcisubstack.comThe machines are learning to think. Soon they will think better than us, faster than us, without fatigue. They will fill our spreadsheets, respond to our emails, and complete our to-do lists. The work that defined human life for generations is ending. By the year 2030, the machines will be doing 90% of the work in 90% of the jobs. And we’re left... See more
The era of the artist
We’re approaching a splitting point, where AI’s impacts on how we speak and write move between the poles of standardization, like templating professional emails or formal presentations, and authentic expression in personal and emotional spaces. Between those poles, there are three core tensions at play. Early backlash signals, like academics... See more
Sara Parker • You sound like ChatGPT | The Verge
Imperfection is beauty and is human. It will be valued even more
There is a growing desire among Gen Z to reclaim their autonomy from their phones and remove themselves from what Shaz describes as a passive state of being. Last year, anti-tech activist and writer August Lamm predicted that abstention would be the next big thing. On X, she wrote: “I’m calling it right now, abstention is the new big thing;... See more
Halima Jibril • Why some young people are ‘quitting’ music
New study shows that TikTok and Insta trap young people, who feel they MUST use the platforms because… everyone else does. But if offered the chance to PAY to have everyone in their college delete the apps, most on TikTok, and half on Insta, would pay.
Also: most students say they’d PREFER to live in a world with no... See more
This is also the blueprint for a happy co-existence with the machines. The machines handle the optimization, we take care of the meaning. They execute, we dream. They calculate, and we create. This beautiful symbiosis will be the seed of everything because when humans live from their creative nature, we build societies that breathe. When we stay... See more
The era of the artist
we’ve been trained since childhood to value the answer. school taught us that. the world graded us on it.
but real thinkers, dangerous thinkers, chase questions.
not to look smart. not to win arguments.
but to see differently.
to peel back the world & ask: why does this even look like this?
to ask things like:
but real thinkers, dangerous thinkers, chase questions.
not to look smart. not to win arguments.
but to see differently.
to peel back the world & ask: why does this even look like this?
to ask things like:
- what assumptions are hiding in plain sight?
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