the single greatest thing you can do for your sanity is to take life seriously. we live in a profoundly irony-poisoned society and you cut off 1/100th of what life can offer you by being a goofball. the jester may be near the king but he does not sit at the hand of the father
AI really killed the entry grad job market in the uk.
Openings dropped by 30% just this year.
Businesses don’t know what to do:
1. Invest capital on new grads.
or
2. Wait for AI to bail them out, making new grads insignificant.
Which one makes more sense?
The NPC theory: “most people” don’t really have deep inner lives where they yearn for meaning and purpose, they’re just incentive-following automatons who will do whatever satisfies their hardwired drives. Just sheep following the trends.