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…there’s a promising future for anyone willing to double down on the role of conscious human connection in their work. And even if I’m wrong in terms of earning a living – even if the AI Evangelist Podcast Men of early 2025 turn out to be right, and it’s all over for human creativity – I still think that anyone who proceeds on this assumption will experience a more meaningful and vibrant life, a life filled with more aliveness.

This was the first in a series of conversational fly-swats that the pair of them did to each other. Someone would float a topic in the air that could open up at least five minutes of pleasant chit-chat, and the other would whack the plastic swatter over it, killing small-talk potential in seconds.

There's a reason rich people want you to vote with your wallet. It's because they have thicker wallets than you do. Agonizing about your consumption choices is a waste of time. […] If you want to shop at your corner bookshop, I applaud you for doing so. And my book is available in finer bookshops everywhere. But don't kid yourself that that's going to deprive Jeff Bezos of his next penis-shaped rocket launch. These are systemic problems, not individual choices.

In a recent opinion piece, [Louise Perry] describes our collective longing for community – specifically, the kind of village-style child-rearing we claim to want but rarely attempt to build. She argues that modern Western families have splintered into different locations, chasing careers and nuclear family dreams, leaving us spectacularly unprepared for the dependency that bookends human life.