Cal Newport

They weren't showing Don Draper grinding it out.

Like, man, Don Draper is like in the office till, you know, 3 a.m.

every night or whatever.

Now he took the five o'clock train back to, you know, Connecticut or whatever.

It was, he was really, really good.

at coming up with ad copy.

He was good at what he did.

That's what you used to respect.

And then after the 80s, 90s, Silicon Valley became pervasive.

Like, no, what matters is you never have a no-op.

You never have a down cycle.

You might as well say yes to more things.

You might as well get more emails.

You never have time where you're not working.

That's what productivity is going to be.

And that was a disaster for the human brain.

Oh, there's a lot going on with AI.

I mean, I think in its current instantiation, so we think about like an office worker for the most part, put programmers aside, I'll get back to them, but non-programmers are really interacting with chatbots.

Like that's the main way they're integrating right now with AI.

It's exaggerating exactly what you said.