I saw a comic strip somewhere where a character quipped something like, “Even if AI could take my job, I don’t think it’ll want it.”

Probably more truth in that than most people are giving credit to.

And speaking of truth in unlikely places, a recent fortune cookie fortune has been occupying way too much space in my brain lately as well. The fortune said, “No job is so simple that it cannot be done wrong.”

Ain’t that the truth.

Because even with AI, if you’re using it all of the time, you know the new frustrations you’ve uncovered. The things that seem like they’ll work, or at least like the should work, and then they choke in an unexpected way or totally miss the angle you were trying to work.

It makes you think. Well, that and the fortune cookie, and all the AI talk makes me think. About how none of it can take the place of thinking.

We still have to live with ourselves. In our own heads. No matter how much time we give up to scrolling or chatting or - insert whatever distraction of choice has come along with every age and every point in time.

That leaves the job nobody else can fill: be yourself.

Ps. Hello fellow weirdos. You can’t escape it, either, so maybe just embrace it. That means making time to reflect (and this Personal Archive idea wraps around on itself, yet again).