03 Jan 2026 - nzge
with the advent of ai and the continued accessibility of knowledge through the deep interwoven network of knowledge that is the internet and its intelligent users, school structured education is appearing less and less useful. its becoming increasingly apparent that the greatest teacher is the self and the beautiful piece of technology that is the personal computer come face to face with for a majority of the waking hours of my
if you just step back and look at what we do for hours of the day. did our ancestors ever imagine that they were building toward a future where a majority of people’s lives will be spent staring at a flashy colorful boxing of flashy colors, and that more people make money by staring at these flashy boxes so that other people staring at their flashy boxes can have a more pleasant time staring at their flashy boxes. the reasoning is a bit circular. we create tools to make our real lives more pleasant, but in the process we glue or minds and hearts to the very thing/tool that was supposed to improve our real lives instead of actually living the life we were seeking to optimize.
sorry for that tangent. but the true point i am trying to get at is that with the growing singularity that is the ai interweb conglomerate, we continually outsource our knowledge to external media, our very minds and cognition is being sucked out of our brains and replaced with computing devices.
the only thing that ai cannot replaced, and the core skill that will grant anyone sucess is human grit. i believe that grit is the prevailing character trait that will stand the test of time. we need to preserve our humanity, the very fire that makes us breathe will life. to not just exist, but to truly life the most straightforward/acessibility manifestion of our human will that we can partake of in modern society is physical fitness. these days even physical actions are being replaced with automation. waymos, delivery robots and services. in the past, this human fire, the thirst for life within us was stoked by a real survival instinct that was required to survive. to be active and hunt and gather for survival. these days we need to artificially supplement that hunger within us with artifically created challenges. running workouts. strength straining, and the like