Molly

First, some numbers: Gen Z spends an average of 109 days per year looking at a screen. Eighty percent of our waking hours are spent consuming information, up from 40% in 1980.

‘PEOPLE FEEL THEY DON’T OWE ANYONE ANYTHING’: THE RISE IN ‘FLAKING’ OUT OF SOCIAL PLANS , theguardian

Related to the above, The Guardian reports that there’s been an uptick in canceling plans, a “phenomenon” that’s having a significant impact on social relationships.

“Increasingly with gen Z and millennials there is a fetishisation of introversion,”

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Freelance Learnings/Skills relevant to full time employment.

• Clarity . Above all, it is this. As a freelancer, the risk of a missed deliverable outweighs the risk of asking a dumb question (most of the time I’ve found, everyone else had the same question as well).


• Honesty . About what is possible in a given amount of time. About what is worth doing

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But with AI, it’s now possible that such a thing may happen, that AI could come to generate the majority of the content we humans see on the web. Indeed, a 2022 report from European law enforcement agency Europol pointed out that experts believe that as much as 90% of online content may be synthetically generated by 2026—90%!

This is part of a bigger trend—the financialization of everything—that we’ve seen power similar areas like retail investing, web3 / NFTs, and sports betting.

There are startups now, like one called Cluely that promise real-time assistance for everything: campus tests, dating, even thinking. Their slogan is: “So you never have to think alone again.” Their plan is eventually to develop a chip for your brain.

What’s worse is the deep capitalism poisoning that confuses consumerism with culture: a new water bottle despite having water bottles, simping for and falling for billionaire theatrics, happily welcoming the AI-fication of everything. A loser landscape is emerging, as teens want less sex in movies, as nightclubs close and sober bars rise, as nightl... See more

Instead, they will be faced with the challenge of finding meaningful work in a world set up to exploit their labor. They’ll need all the help we can give them.