The one-way door
We offshored the economy, optimized for cost. It worked. It also hollowed out towns.
We deployed social media, optimized for engagement. It worked. It also degraded trust and truth.
Both times, by the time we saw the damage, it was too embedded to undo. Doors that only open one way.
#fyp #reality #ai
The missing mechanism
By what mechanism do our actual desires get translated into what we build?
We have markets (they translate willingness to pay). We have politics (they translate organized power).
Neither is a channel for what people want the future to be.
The honest answer is we don’t have one.
The expense report test
We can build machines that write sonnets and generate Picassos.
We still haven’t killed the expense report.
The single most universally hated chore in modern work survives completely intact. That gap tells you exactly what the spend is for and what isnt
#fyp #ai #radicalrebalancing
Children are just magical. They really transform your life is such amazing ways.
Every chapter with them is growth within yourself and love you get to share with them.
Being a mother is really the best blessing
Life feels so much peaceful when everything isn’t on display. Like they say, out of sight out of mind. There’s something really comforting about people not knowing every detail of your life.
As much flak as working women in rap still get for having kids, it’s quite refreshing to see a pregnancy be so embedded in an album rollout.
Says a lot about how women feel more empowered today to embrace what society tells them they can’t have (a successful career + a family).