I live a boring life. I’m 39, and most of my days look exactly the same.
I work from a small office, take walks, see my family, lift weights, read, and write. That’s about it.
And I love it.
My 19-year-old self would scoff at this. Even my 29-year-old self would. “Is that all there is to life?” he’d say. “You’ve got to be out there. In the middle of the action!”
What action?
I think I watched too many TV shows and movies.
Working hard won’t make you rich.
I know that’s not what we’ve grown up hearing. We’ve heard the opposite.
It doesn’t work that way, though… At least not the way we’ve been promised.
But that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
Even if you work hard and you don’t get rich, the work gives you something else.
Something most people overlook because they’re too busy waiting for the paycheck. And it’s worth more than the money.
I’m running the next cohort of my course Launch in 48 right now. Registration closes tomorrow, June 30.
That’s something I haven’t said in a while. Because for the last two years, I told myself I was done with cohorts.
I stopped doing them. I stopped updating my courses. I stopped most of the work that built my writing career in the first place. And I told myself a story the entire time about why that was fine.
It wasn’t.
This article is about why I left, what I learned from leaving, and why I came back.
I’m convinced that AI will not destroy our need for personal connection, humanity, stories, and expression.
The reason I’m so convinced of that is because of one word.
Culture.
When people talk about AI, they underestimate the power of culture.
As in common values and thinking. The slow, invisible force that decides what actually sticks in our lives and what doesn’t.
Here’s what most people miss. When something new arrives, it has to pass through culture before it changes anything. And culture moves slowly.