How Do I Escape the “Busyness Singularity”? | Monday Advice

There are a lot of concerns in our current discourse about work and technology. Here, for example, is an economist article from just a couple weeks ago. The headline reads, Prepare for an AI jobs apocalypse. It is not here yet, but government should lay a safety net. Yikes.

Right? Now here's a a Times headline from just last week. California's governor signs AI order aimed at protecting workers. Governor Gavin Newsome issued an executive order to explore an overhaul of labor policies to deal with potential mass job displacement from artificial intelligence. Now notice what these examples have in common.

They're all about the potential catastrophic loss of jobs that might occur if technology automates existing roles. But there's another possibility that people haven't been discussing as much, but it's a possibility that I've increasingly come to worry about. What if the real fear with new advancements like AI is not that these technologies are going to take your job, but instead are going to make your job miserable? And if this is true,

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