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Jevons Paradox: A Personal Perspective
What if the most game-optimal play in the new system is actually to become relentlessly, unapologetically you?
Companies like Basecamp and Buffer have deliberately optimized for employee time sovereignty, measuring success not by maximizing productivity but by creating sustainable workloads that allow for deep thinking and creativity. In the Midjourney's Discord, we see glimpses of this future: artists, developers, and enthusiasts fluidly moving between roles, their enhanced capabilities allowing them to operate as both creators and curators, teachers and students, often simultaneously. (...) To live without self-respect is to lie awake some night, beyond the reach of warm milk, phenobarbital, and the sleeping hand on the coverlet, counting up the sins of commission and omission, the trusts betrayed, the promises subtly broken, the gifts irrevocably wasted through sloth or cowardice or carelessness.
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