AI won’t eliminate human effort. It’ll redirect it.

The Future of Work Is About Doing Better—Not Less

https://every.to/learning-curve/the-future-of-work-isn-t-about-doing-less-it-s-about-doing-better

This metaphor — comparing how cake mix revolutionized baking in the 1950s to the way AI is transforming our work today — is absolutely brilliant.


https://every.to/learning-curve/the-future-of-work-isn-t-about-doing-less-it-s-about-doing-better

Whilst some of the points about where personal satisfaction arise from deep work are well explained, I think this article doesn’t contextualise this in the wider capitalistic tendency toward cheaper, faster, quicker with a disregard for quality.

I’m optimistic, but I think THAT’s the real question that needs answering to prevent a race to the bottom.

This does feel like an important challenge. I’m curious what you imagine reframing/understanding our “value set” might look like. I think one way to define that is “the market,” which already naturally changes and responds to things like degradation of quality.

So it really requires us to reframe that aspect of quality in a wider context which is about understanding or reframing our value set, now that other things have been automated.

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