Good text for your morning commute, or the shitter if you are doing home office.
TLDR by Sol:
Most people do not actually want to save time. They want meaningful ways to spend it, especially by making things rather than merely consuming them.
AI is not just an efficiency tool. It is more like a paintbrush: a technology that expands what ordinary people can express, build, and become.
Making things connects your past experiences, present actions, and future ambitions. Passive consumption, especially algorithmic feeds, mostly traps you in an empty present.
AI radically lowers the cost of execution, meaning people without coding skills, capital, teams, or institutional permission can finally turn their weird ideas into real products and projects.
At work, AI's best use is removing the surrounding bullshit, meetings, admin, and coordination tax, so people can spend more time doing the part they are genuinely good at.
The optimistic future is not humans becoming passive while AI does everything. It is individuality at scale: millions of people making strange, personal, slightly pointless things because execution is no longer the bottleneck.