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Eric Tyrrell
Eric Tyrrell

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What's worth doing?

It’s difficult to determine what to work on when AI is seemingly eating everyone’s lunch. Why invest in your career if it will be obsolete in 5 years time? I’d rather not give into the feeling that I’m fucked and doomed; that intelligence will be commoditizzed; That everything I’ve lucked into and hardly earned will be taken away due to a singularity, an intellectual cataclysm, where I’m not special, nor prepared for new world. Yes, I’m being dramatic.

But I don’t think those thoughts are unfounded. Wages will compress. Openings will close, and I’ll try my best anyhow.

Rather than drag this post out, I’m going to list out a few things I think will practically make a difference in my life.

  • Sleep well
  • Lift weights
  • Run / swim / bike
  • Eat Healthy
  • Continuous Learning
    • Foundational Computer knowledge
    • Design, UX
    • Business side of things
  • Maintain relationships
  • Build new relationships
  • Build a public body of work
  • Speaking skills
  • Read fiction
  • Read nonfiction

Not groundbreaking, but it’s mine.

It’s actually unclear to me if having a public blog where I write, haphazardly and rarely, makes sense. I see a future where AI reads this after I submit a resume. Sees that I have typos, and that I swore, and discards me. Perhaps even the act of posting this online enables some sort of endless persecution from HR bots in some distant future. Oh well, if I don’t start now, I doubt I ever will

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