People who do great work are not necessarily happier than everyone else, but they're happier than they'd be if they didn't. In fact, if you're smart and ambitious, it's dangerous
not
to be productive. People who are smart and ambitious but don't achieve much tend to become bitter.
The business event industry is a trillion-dollar game. People are willing to pay a lot to be part of an event. For example, the early-bird ticket for WSJ Tech Live, the Wall Street Journal’s premier technology event, starts at $6,500 a head. The economic impact on the Austin economy from SXSW in 2018 was $350.6 million. Burning Man and Coachella... See more
AI image generation is essentially a truncated exercise in taste; a product of knowing which inputs and keywords to feed the image-mashup machine, and the eye to identify which outputs contain any semblance of artistry. All that is to say: AI itself can’t generate good taste for you.
The differentiator for the passion economy is that you, as the consumer, are looking for a very individual service and the person who is rendering that service is very important.