I was listening to Derek Thompson’s most recent podcast with Cal Newport. As a long time Cal Newport stan, it hit on a lot of themes that you’d expect; society is getting worse dealing with deep thinking.
In particular I really enjoyed Derek talking about his idea of time under tension for the mind as a metric to strive for, particularly in regards with children.
I think with AI there’s a really fine balance between being a helpful tool (i.e. a personalized Google), and outsourcing a ton of thinking to it (i.e., what’s my bosses' tone in this email). I was struck by how many people were using it for a Best Man’s or Maid of Honor’s speech; this super personal thing just outsourced feels so wacky to me.