It is still quite cool, but it is warm enough for me to wear a t-shirt during the day when walking the dog. In the evening though, I still need a hoodie. Many are still wearing quite heavy jackets, but stripping off early means that even if the summer isn't that warm, whatever warmth there is, will feel hot enough for me. At least that is the theory, and it generally works. It is the same in the autumn where I don't put on much clothing until later in the season, and even then I keep myself feeling a bit cooler than comfortable. This way, the winter isn't quite as biting and I always have more clothes I could put on.
Be prepared.
I wish I was better prepared for life than I tend to be, but for some reason it escapes me. Too much is "just in time" and what that means is too often it becomes, just too late. One day I will mature enough to do what I know I should do, when I know I need to do it. But it seems that after almost a half century, I am not there yet.
One day.
Not that I am that intelligent, but I think I am one of those smart dumb people. The kind of person who is smart enough to know what to do, but too stupid to do it. Which completely plays into one of my life wisdoms of knowing isn't doing. And I think that this is a big problem with a lot of the support aids we have like AI, because while they can help us do what we need to do today, they aren't supporting our personal development to be able to do what we need to do tomorrow.
Someone recently said that using AI has made them better at their job and I can very well believe it, but my question is; Did the AI make them better? Because doing the job faster and more effectively brings benefits for the company, but it doesn't increase personal growth, so doesn't make a person better suited for the future needs of that same company.
And it is going to be interesting as companies lean more on AI and people who use AI, because what they will soon likely discover, is that they no longer have any competitive advantage in their people, because anyone can do the job. And when there is no in-house competitive advantage, where is the value proposition? For now the efficiency gains take all the focus, but a lot of what is being done is just finding more efficiencies in what is already being done. And I think that while there is plenty of potential for innovation, innovative people are still required, and they are in increasingly short supply.
It is a bit like the film industry, where most of the new releases are remakes and franchises, and even the ones that aren't, are just taking whatever is in the public discourse currently and attempting to teach lessons, with the nuance and subtlety of a sledgehammer. Which makes sense, because the audience is increasingly distracted and simple. Rather than getting smarter and more complex, we have simplified and lost our ability to think for more than three seconds on a topic, before scrolling to the next.
Simplification is intelligent design, but simplification of intelligence is backward evolution.
But intelligence is an interesting thing, because an idiot doesn't necessarily know they are an idiot, especially if they are surrounded by other idiots. And we are globally like the proverbial frog slowly boiling in the water, too senseless to jump out. And by the way, the reasons the frog in that study didn't jump out, was because it was labotomised. Again, this makes sense. When you have had your brain removed, you are unlikely to realise that you are on the path to self-destruction.
Still have a brain?
I feel we are becoming collectively blind en masse through the way we consume and behave in this modern world. When we find a shortcut we take it and convince ourselves it is the right thing to do, because everyone else is doing it. We don't look at the potential long-term costs, or the possible repercussions, because as long as we get something we want now (more time, more money, more ease), we will kick the can of reality down the road for another day. And when we are doing this as a species, we aren't going to be prepared for what will arrive.
Maybe we are all too immature.
Taraz
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