But “if we can recognise that change and uncertainty are basic principles,” as the futurist and environmentalist Hazel Henderson put it, “we can greet the future… with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.”
It’s a question of ‘Where do you spend your life energy?’ Not ‘Where do you make the most money?’
Heavy use of ChatGPT was correlated with increased loneliness, emotional dependence, and reduced social interaction, the studies found.
Because you realize the stickers were never about earning. They were about noticing. They were about someone stopping long enough to say: This mattered. This was good. This is worth mentioning. You matter. I see you. I celebrate you.
The best revenge is to refuse their values. To embody the kind of living — free, colorful, open — they want to snuff out.
Work becomes great when curiosity drives it beyond obligation.
Product recommendations, deals, and gift guides currently comprise a healthy chunk of many publishers’ businesses; chatbots appear poised to swallow much of that business for themselves. And to make a more obvious point, nearly all of these use cases were formerly queries that began on Google; it’s no wonder that the company is working to transform itself before it loses any more market share to the upstarts.
Time is extremely limited and goes by fast. Do what makes you happy and fulfilled—few people get remembered hundreds of years after they die anyway. Don’t do stuff that doesn’t make you happy (this happens most often when other people want you to do something). Don’t spend time trying to maintain relationships with people you don’t like, and cut negative people out of your life. Negativity is really bad. Don’t let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.
If you want to understand someone, figure out the narrative they tell themselves about themself.
“I think we have to stop talking about, ‘Everything we do is climate change,’ because it’s almost like there’s a visceral reaction to those words,” Holmgren says. “This isn’t a good time to put a red flag in front of the bull.”