Sakib Ahmed

there’s a specific kind of exhaustion that doesn’t come from doing too much, but from thinking too much while doing very little.

This is what I infer when I see someone who is comfortable in their unique strangeness, too. There probably exists someone who enabled that evolution of personality. A parent, a friend group, a spouse. It is rare for people to come into themselves if no one is excited and curious about their core, their potential. We need someone who gives us space... See more

This is why people get so brain-constipated when they try to choose a career, and why they often pick the wrong one: they don’t understand the craziness that they have to offer, nor the craziness that will be demanded of them, and so they spend their lives jamming their square-peg selves into round-hole jobs.

I have a pet theory that when people introspect about themselves, their brain sometimes just scrambles to generate relevant content. So they feel like they're gaining insight into deeper parts of themselves when they're actually just inventing it on the fly.

Places become pieces of us and our stories. They set the tone for the way in which we move through our daily lives. The way we work and parent. How and who we spend our time with. Who we are and who we become. Places are the catalyst for it all.

AI handles the optimized stuff now. Better than we ever could. It finds patterns, maximizes output, eliminates waste. What it can't do is be genuinely stupid. Being genuinely stupid might be the last human superpower. It can't have the random collision that changes everything.