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From Wikipedia:

In April 2010, Kevin Kelly cited the phrase “Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution”, and called it the “Shirky Principle”.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to Magic. – Arthur C. Clarke

AI is being applied to tasks. Anything task related in your job will probably be automated. Either because your current company will do it, or because if it doesn’t, it will loose competitiveness.

Absolutely true.

A short video from Matt Mullenweg about distributed work.

I don’t want to optimize for work, and I don’t want to optimize for family time. I want to optimize for life. I get one life and I don’t want to look back at 90 yelling I regret doing or not doing something. I always try to keep that end in mind. So I try to live life backwards in the sense of, where do I really want to go and how do I get there?

– Shane Parish, AMA on Farnam Street Learning Community (January 2020)