Call me old fashioned, but I think you can get pretty far in life by just finishing things. The world is full of half-written books, half-built businesses, and half-kept promises. You stand out by closing loops. By doing what you said you’d do. By having the courage to finish.
We’ve hit this odd moment where folks are using AI to write book-length articles and then viewers are using ai to reduce it back down to the size of a tweet.
The boy will grow up asking the machine before he asks his father. And the machine will be smarter than his father and kinder than his father and more patient than his father. And the father will feel useless and he will be right to feel it. But the boy will still need something the machine cannot give and by the time he knows this he will have forgotten how to ask a person for anything.
“Modern society flatters men into weakness by promising ease; but a man who accepts ease as his master soon finds he has no strength left to resist anything at all. Comfort is the chief corrupter of the age.”
— Hilaire Belloc