Thanks for writing this — it needed to be said. We're all gloriously blindsided by the idea that we need to be at the top of our game, and then some, every day. We've definitely lost sight of what really matters, that you've nicely captured here: "Instead of using that money to build a life where you don’t need to work, we’re using that work to give us the appearance of life."
Thank you, Mayank, for writing this on behalf of a lot of us. You have articulated the fallacy of wanting to be a part of every-next-cool-thing brilliantly. Especially love the GOT ref of the wheel. My fav line - the game is playing you. Clearly this is more than just productivity!
Humans as species is Lost, always ignoring the acquired posessions and chasing something Unknown even if this Unknown is worst than the already aquired one. While there is Global firing of Rockets in the space to look for possible life, find aliens or someother species and then possibly communicate with them.....With thousands of species living on our own planet Earth we have not tried enough to communicate and evolve together at all instead we have just wooed away rest of the species wherever we have settled..... what we really need is a Firmware Upgrade of all the Human as species to be part of the evolution in sync with the other fellow species rather than being puppets of these Illusionary Flywheels ....
Great read. Productivity porn is a big pandemic!
Thanks for writing this — it needed to be said. We're all gloriously blindsided by the idea that we need to be at the top of our game, and then some, every day. We've definitely lost sight of what really matters, that you've nicely captured here: "Instead of using that money to build a life where you don’t need to work, we’re using that work to give us the appearance of life."
Thank you, Mayank, for writing this on behalf of a lot of us. You have articulated the fallacy of wanting to be a part of every-next-cool-thing brilliantly. Especially love the GOT ref of the wheel. My fav line - the game is playing you. Clearly this is more than just productivity!
Humans as species is Lost, always ignoring the acquired posessions and chasing something Unknown even if this Unknown is worst than the already aquired one. While there is Global firing of Rockets in the space to look for possible life, find aliens or someother species and then possibly communicate with them.....With thousands of species living on our own planet Earth we have not tried enough to communicate and evolve together at all instead we have just wooed away rest of the species wherever we have settled..... what we really need is a Firmware Upgrade of all the Human as species to be part of the evolution in sync with the other fellow species rather than being puppets of these Illusionary Flywheels ....