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The more money you make from a job that mostly involves typing things into a computer, the more likely it is that the highest value-added minutes of your entire career will take the form of shower thoughts, figuring things out during a long walk, drawing an analogy from something you're reading in an unrelated field, etc., though all of those are conditioned on many more hours of doing things that look more like actual work.
The AI Leisure Time Dividend Is Economic Dark Matter
thediff.co
For me, creating things is about finding a place for feelings that would otherwise interfere with ordinary life.
Those could be feelings of aggression. They could be feelings of depression. For me, those are two common ones, and they're not feelings that I want to dominate my ordinary life, which is why they work so well as an engine for making things.
Experiencing the selflessness, timelessness, effortlessness, and richness of nonordinary states of consciousness can accelerate learning, facilitate healing, and provide measurable impact in our lives and work. But we have to revise our tactics and upend convention to make the most of those advantages.
Stealing Fire
Steven Kotler, Jamie Wheal
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