Cal Newport

Look, computer programmers have their own issues.

You should listen to a couple weeks ago.

I did a whole AI reality check episode on what's really happening with computer programming.

There's all sorts of issues with AI in the fields.

Last week I did something on what's happening in mathematics with AI.

These are the fields where...

AI is best suited to play.

But when it comes to like normal knowledge work jobs, you're not a professional mathematician or computer scientist.

You're not a programmer.

This is what I'm worried about.

The business singularity, pseudo productivity being pushed reducto ad absurdum.

And these are the type of things.

This is what you have to be doing now is you have to leave the pseudo productivity trap.

This is the time to start leaving pseudo productivity and moving towards depth.

It's the time to stop relying on visible activity as your main marker of value in the workplace and instead relying on actual hard-won things you did and can point to.

Now, it might seem scary at first because there's a certain predictable comfort to just sitting there and sending emails and having AI make that even easier.

But that is a trap that's not sustainable.

It's going to become increasingly exhausting and you will become increasingly vulnerable.

Do the hard work of actually doing hard work.

That is the key to differentiating yourself in our current technological moment.