I want to start with a number that, honestly,
it scares me a little. 13 .7. 13 .7. Years. Years,
yeah. Specifically, we're talking about the time
between, say, late 2025 and early 2039. The Reed
Multiplex source material that we're digging
into today calls this the abundance interregnum.
Right. If you strip away all the fancy terminology,
what we're really talking about is a countdown.
It absolutely is a countdown. And it's not just
some arbitrary window or a prediction pulled
out of thin air. This is the 5 ,000 days timeline.
The whole premise here, the thing we've been
tracking, is that we're living in this very specific,
very strange liminal space. A space where the
rules are changing. Completely. The fundamental
link, the one that's defined human society for
millennia, between working for a living and,
well, surviving. That link is being severed by
AI and robotics. Which, you know, on paper sounds
amazing. It sounds like utopia from some old
sci -fi novel. But living through it in the day
to day, it feels a lot more like anxiety. It
does. Feels like the floor is disappearing. Exactly.
And we've been covering the series for a while
now. This is the Read Multiplex podcast after
all. But today we're looking at part 12. It's
titled Resurrection in the Reversal. And I have
to say, the source material here takes a... A
pretty hard left turn from the usual tech optimism
you see everywhere else. It really does. It stops
focusing on the gigahertz and the parameter counts,
and it starts looking at the psychology of it
all, at us. The core argument here is about this
one word, obsolescence. A word nobody wants to
hear. Right. Usually when we hear that word,
we think of, I don't know, an old flip phone
in a junk drawer. We think, useless. We think
it's over. You think of being discarded, being
left behind. But the sources we're looking at...
And they're drawing heavily on the really the
prophetic work of Norbert Wiener and J .C .R.
Licklider. They argue that obsolescence is actually
a crucible. A crucible. So a trial by fire. Exactly.
It's an initiation ritual. The source says when
the machine takes the drudgery of your job, the
repetitive tasks, it doesn't just leave a hole.
It creates a vacuum that sort of forces you to
become something else. Something else. Okay,
that's the mystery, isn't it? That's what we're
trying to solve in this deep dive. Because if
I'm not my job title, and if a machine can do
the tasks of my job better, faster, and cheaper
than me, then what am I? That is the question,
the central question of the 5 ,000 days. And
to even begin to answer it, we have to go back
in time. We have to go back to the 1940s, to
a mathematician who realized that the way we
think about machines and the way we think about
ourselves, we're about to collide in a very big
way. Before we jump into the history, though,
let's just frame where we are in this 5000 Days
series, because this isn't just a collection
of articles. It's built on a very specific narrative
structure, which I think is key to understanding
it. It is. It's absolutely fundamental. The series
uses Joseph Campbell's hero's journey. the monomyth,
to map the psychological evolution of the entire
human race during this transition. So it's not
just about economics. No, it reframes this economic
crisis we're seeing, with all the headlines about
layoffs and automation, not as some random disaster,
but as an initiation, a collective one. Which
is a really helpful framework, I think, because
without it, the news just looks like pure chaos.
It's terrifying. But if you can view it as a
story, as a journey, you can at least try to
find where you are on the map. Exactly. And if
you look at the journey so far, we're talking
parts 1 through 11, it tracks almost perfectly
with the Kubler -Ross model of grief. It's fascinating.
So we started with the grief cycle. We did. We
started with the call and the threshold in parts
one and two. That was the initial wake up call.
The moment you realize this is real. And it was
about dealing with the grief of leaving the old
world, the predictable world behind. That was
the denial phase. You know, AI is just a fad
or I can't write poetry or it'll never replace
a real artist. All that stuff. Precisely. The
bargaining. Then we moved into the danger in
parts three and four. This is where the source
material talked about the player piano risk.
The player piano. Automation that feels empty.
Yes. Automation causing this deep alienation.
If the machines do everything, do we matter?
Right. Do we have a purpose? The challenge there
was to reframe this coming abundance as liberation,
not just cosmic boredom. Which led us, and I
think a lot of people are here right now, to
the ordeal. Parts five and six, you're de -skilling.
This is the hard part. This is the dark forest
of the journey. It's the pain of losing your
old identities. If you spend 20 years of your
life being a graphic designer or a coder or a
copywriter, and a machine can now do it almost
instantly. You feel that de -skilling in your
bones. It's a profound identity crisis. I feel
like a lot of our listeners are probably nodding
along right now, stuck right there in the ordeal.
I think most of us are. It's a painful place
to be. But the series argues that it's not the
end. It moves forward. Parts seven through nine
were about the shift, finding meaning beyond
pure utility. The source even references I &M
Bank's culture series there. It was about saving
human wisdom and the artisan's awakening. The
resurgence of craft, of things made by hand.
Yes. The return to the tactile. And now we're
at the tipping point. The reversal of obsolescence
based on Marshall McLuhan's tetrad. We're at
part 12. This is the moment where defeat is supposed
to flip to victory. So the mission of this specific
deep dive then is to figure out how we stick
that landing. How do we actually move from the
ordeal to the resurrection? And the source material
points us to two very specific guides for this
part of the journey. Norbert Wiener, and JCR
Licklider. The prophet and the architect. That's
what the source calls them. Let's start with
the prophet then. Let's start with Wiener. I
knew the name, obviously cybernetics, but I have
to admit, I didn't realize how deeply integral
he is to understanding this specific moment we're
in right now. He's everything. To understand
Wiener, you have to understand the problem he
was trying to solve during World War II. It wasn't
code breaking like Turing. It was something more
dynamic. It was ballistics. You mean like shooting
down planes? Exactly. The German bombers were
flying fast. Too fast. Too fast for a human gunner
to track and lead the target. Way too fast for
the human reaction time. Think about it. By the
time the gunner's eye saw the plane, and his
brain calculated the trajectory, and his nervous
system told his hand to crank the gun, and the
shell actually flew through the air. The plane
was miles away. You're always, always shooting
at a ghost. So you have to predict the future.
You have to shoot where the plane is going to
be. But the pilot is actively trying to evade
you. It's random. See, that's the thing. It looks
random. But Wiener, as this incredible prodigy,
realized it wasn't truly random. How so? Even
a pilot trying to dodge is still a human being
in a machine. They're under physical constraints.
Gravity, momentum, the turning radius of the
plane, and maybe most importantly, fear. Human
psychology. Wiener realized that if you treat
the pilot's behavior not as random noise, but
as a pattern of information, a stream of inputs
and outputs, you could start to predict the future
statistically. Okay, hold on. This is the famous
anti -aircraft predictor. He's literally building
a machine that predicts the future. In a very
specific way. He's building it around a feedback
loop. This is the birth of cybernetics. It's
so elegant. The gun fires. It misses. The system
sees the error, the distance between the shell's
explosion and the plane. And it feeds that error,
that new piece of information back into the equation
to correct the very next shot. So it learns from
its own mistake. Instantly. Yeah. And this is
the critical takeaway, the thing that changes
everything. Wiener proved that purposeful behavior
like trying to hit a moving target is just a
negative feedback loop. It's a system trying
to reduce the error between its goal and its
current state. And it doesn't matter if that
system is a human brain or a circuit board with
vacuum tubes. It doesn't matter. If it corrects
its error based on feedback from the environment,
it is thinking. in a cybernetic sense. It is
behaving purposefully. I mean, that's deeply
unsettling because it implies that intelligence,
this thing we hold so sacred, isn't some magical
soul stuff. It's just error correction. Which
is precisely why Norbert Wiener got scared. Really
scared. He looked at this anti -aircraft gun,
this machine he'd helped create, and he had this
terrifying realization. We just built a machine
that acts like a biological organism. And if
we can scale this up... We aren't just building
better tools anymore. We are building a new species
of labor. And this is where the prophet title
really comes into play. He saw this 5 ,000 days
crisis coming 80 years ago. He absolutely did.
In 1947, he published an article in The Atlantic
called A Scientist Rebels. He publicly refused
to share his work with military contractors ever
again because he'd seen the destruction of the
war and he saw where this was headed. He later
wrote a book called The Human Use of Human Beings.
The title alone tells you everything you need
to know about his perspective. It does. His warning
was so stark, so clear. He said, if we use these
new automatic machines to simply replace humans,
to treat human beings as inefficient slave labor
that we can just discard, we degrade humanity
itself. He had this quote, and it's central to
the whole deep dive. The automatic machine is
the precise economic equivalent of slave labor.
Wow. So if you try to compete with the machine
on its own terms, pure efficiency, raw speed,
calculation, you will always lose. You effectively
become the slave in that relationship. You lose
your humanity by trying to be a bad machine.
Exactly. But, and this is the hopeful part, if
we use them properly as partners, we can liberate
ourselves. And that brings us to the man who
took Wiener's profound warning and turned it
into an actual blueprint for the future, J .C
.R. Licklider. Licklider. Okay, so he's the essential
link here. Because Wiener gave us the fundamental
mechanism, the feedback loop, and the warning,
but... Licklider gave us the strategy. He did.
Licklider was a psychologist by training, which
is really important. He was interested in the
human mind. But he was at MIT, and he sat at
Wiener's table. He went to the Macy conferences.
He absorbed all these ideas about cybernetics
and feedback loops, but he added the crucial
next step. In 1960, he published this seminal
paper, Man -Computer Symbiosis. Symbiosis. Not
domination, not replacement. Partnership. Partnership.
That's the word. The core concept was that humans
and computers could be coupled so tightly together
that they would effectively think thoughts that
no single mind, whether human or machine, could
ever reach on its own. It's like a turbo boost
for the brain. But how does that actually work
in practice? Because right now, for a lot of
people, it feels like the computer is doing the
thinking for me, not with me. And that's the
danger Wiener saw. Licklider's vision was different.
He broke it down by a clear division of labor.
The computers, he said, are brilliant at the
routine. The rote tasks, data retrieval, real
-time simulation. The desk, as he called it,
becomes this sacred station of computational
power. Okay, so the machine handles the what.
It handles the what and the how, but the humans,
we handle the why. We set the goals. We frame
the questions. We formulate the hypotheses. And
most importantly, we judge the values. It's the
difference between the engine and the steering
wheel. The engine provides the power, but the
human decides the destination. That's a perfect
analogy. And Licklider was the one who literally
steered us toward what we now call the Internet.
When he was at ARPA in the early 60s, he sketched
out his vision for an intergalactic computer
network. The intergalactic computer network?
I love that. It's fantastic, right? But his vision
wasn't just about connecting machines. It was
about linking machines globally so that humans
could share knowledge and collaborate. He saw
the fork in the road so clearly, even back then.
He knew we could build a future of domination,
the AI overlord. Or we could build a future of
symbiosis, the AI partner. He chose partner.
He bet on us. So we have Wiener giving us the
mechanism of the feedback loop and Licklider
giving us the partnership model. This brings
us to the core thesis of this deep dive. The
source material outlines what it calls three
lanterns to light the path ahead. These are the
guiding principles, the things you need to hold
on to to get through the reversal without losing
your way. Let's hit the first one. It's a big
one. Society is a system of messages. This is
pure Wiener. He said, society can only be understood
through a study of the messages and the communication
facilities which belong to it. So in the age
of AI, the algorithms that curate our feeds,
that write our emails, that suggest our next
purchase, they are the message stream. So we
have to look at the purpose behind those messages.
We have to. Are they serving manipulation for
profit? Or are they serving truth, connection,
and human flourishing? It forces you to be critical
of the information ecosystem you live in. Okay,
but this feels a little abstract. Society is
messages. What does that mean for, say, the person
who just got laid off because an AI took their
job? It means their job wasn't just labor. It
was a message. It was a message they were sending
to society about their value, their competence,
their contribution, and the paycheck they got
back. That was a message society sent back saying,
yes, you were valued. When that feedback loop
breaks, the silence is deafening. It's an existential
crisis. Which leads right into the second lantern,
combating entropy. Now, this is a physics term,
but the source uses it psychologically, which
I found really interesting. It's the second law
of thermodynamics. At its core, it just means
that in a closed system, disorder always increases.
Things fall apart. The center cannot hold. That's
entropy. The natural tendency toward chaos. Precisely.
And life, consciousness, intelligence, these
are the only things in the known universe that
seem to push back against it. We use information
and feedback to create these tiny temporary pockets
of order. A garden. A family. A symphony. Okay,
so connect this to the psychological obsolescence
we're talking about. The feeling of being useless.
Think about it. When a machine takes your job,
All those rote tasks you did every day, the structure
of your week, you feel a void. That void, that
sense of aimlessness and chaos, is entropy flooding
into your life. The old order is gone. And the
resurrection is about building a new order. It's
about filling that void with higher order creation,
with things only a human can do. Art, science,
philosophy, community, soul work. You're pushing
back against the encroaching chaos by creating
something new and meaningful. That makes so much
sense. We feel the chaos because the external
structure of the job has been removed. So we
have to build a new internal structure. A structure
based on purpose, not just utility. And that
requires the third lantern, which is maybe the
most important. Technology and human service.
This is the synthesis of Wiener and Licklider.
The human must hold the reins. The machine proposes.
The human disposes. The machine proposes. The
human disposes. That is the absolute definition
of the solution. Okay, let's get out of the clouds
now. The whole promise of these Reed Multiplex
deep dives is that we land the plane on practical
ground. How do we do this? We have to live this.
It can't just be theory. And the source material,
drawing really heavily on Brian Rommel's work,
provides five specific actionable solutions on
how to live this resurrection today, not in 2039.
Today. And I really want to spend the bulk of
our time here because this is where the rubber
meets the road. This is the toolkit. This is
how you move from that scarcity mindset where
your self -worth is tied to your toil to what
the source calls sovereign mastery, where your
worth is tied to your purpose. OK. Solution number
one, engineering personal feedback loops. Now,
I'll be totally honest. When I first read this,
it sounded. Well, it sounded a bit like a self
-help diary. You know, write down your day. It
does sound like deer diary, right? I had the
same reaction at first. Yeah. But you have to
look at it through the lens of what we just discussed
about Wiener and that anti -aircraft gun. Okay.
Walk me through it. Remind me. In this scenario,
you are both the pilot and the gunner. The problem
with so much of modern life and why we feel this
creeping entropy, this chaos, is that we have
broken our own feedback loops. We doom scroll
on social media. We work on autopilot. We binge
watch. We sleep. There's no reflection. We don't
measure the error. We don't stop to see where
we miss the target of the person we want to be.
Exactly. So Rommel's suggestion isn't just journaling.
It's about consciously closing the circuit. The
practice is this. Each evening, you feed a distilled
summary of your day, your actions, your feelings,
your key interactions into a large language model.
A private, secure one, obviously. Okay, so you
give it the raw data. You give it the data. And
then, and this is the critical part of the prompt,
you don't just ask, how was my day? You ask it
something specific like... Based on my stated
values of patience, creativity, connection, identify
patterns in my behavior today where I drifted
from those values, surface one small, actionable
adjustment I could make tomorrow. Ah, you're
using the AI as the error detector. You're asking
it to be the cybernetic system that spots the
gap between the goal and the reality. You're
using the AI to literally combat entropy in your
own life. The second law of thermodynamics says
everything drifts towards disorder. The only
thing that fights that drift is information.
By forcing the AI to extract a meaningful pattern
from the chaotic data of your day, you are creating
order. You are extracting signal from noise.
So when the AI comes back and says, hey, you
got angry with your kids at 2 p .m. and it seems
to happen every time you skip lunch, that's not
just diet advice. That's signal extraction from
the noise of your life. That's cybernetics applied
to the soul. You are becoming the steersman of
your own life. Which, by the way, is the direct
greet root of the word cybernetics. Kybernetics.
The pilot. The one who steers the ship. That
reframing actually makes me want to try it. It's
less deer diary and more. Yeah. I don't know.
Captain's log. It's taking the wheel back. And
the second part of the solution is the action.
This is the lick lighter part. The machine proposes
the adjustment. Eat lunch at 1 p .m. The human
disposes. You make the choice to actually do
it. And then you log the result the next day.
Did it work? Was the outcome better? If yes,
the loop is closed. If no, you adjust the strategy
and try again. That is incredibly powerful. It
really does turn the AI into a mirror, a tool
for self -reflection rather than a master or
an oracle. It creates a personal self -correcting
circuit for growth. Okay, let's move on to solution
number two, embedding humane purpose in prompting.
This feels like it touches directly on Licklider's
idea of symbiosis. But again, let's make it practical.
How does this change how I type into a chat box?
I think we need to stop settling for raw efficiency.
Right now, most people use AI to just get it
done. Write this email, summarize this report,
plan this trip. Make it sound professional. That's
the one I see all the time. Right. What does
the AI do? It gives you the statistical average
of every professional email it's ever been trained
on, which is usually bland, generic, and slightly
soulless. Rommel's argument is that we need to
stop prompting for tasks and start prompting
for values. We have to inject our purpose into
the command. Can you give me a concrete example?
Okay, let's say you're a writer. You could just
ask an AI, write an intro for a blog post about
coffee. And it'll give you something utterly
generic. You know, coffee is one of the world's
most popular beverages. Which is technically
true, but emotionally dead. It has no flavor.
Exactly. It's entropic communication. Instead,
you shift the goal. You change the prompt. You
ask the model to generate three opening paragraphs
for an article about coffee that honor the dignity
of the reader's time and the simple beauty of
a morning ritual. Wow. Okay. Honor the dignity
of the reader. That's a completely different
instruction. It's a values -based instruction.
You explicitly command it to care about beauty
and respect. Now, the machine doesn't feel dignity,
of course, but it has processed millions of texts
from philosophy to poetry to great novels that
discuss dignity. It knows the pattern of dignity.
By invoking that pattern, you force the machine
to aim for a higher quality of output. And then
this is the crucial human disposes part. You
don't just copy and paste the result. You use
it as a starting point. You use it as your creative
partner. You take its best attempt, and then
you refine it. You polish it. You add the soul,
the specific memory, the neurons that only a
biological being with lived experience can provide.
The source gives another great example with parenting.
Yes, the scheduling assistant. If you're using
an AI to schedule your family's week, don't just
ask it to fit everything in or optimize for time
management. Ask it to optimize for emotional
connection. That is such a profound shift. Optimize
for emotional connection. I can't imagine what
it would even suggest. Well... It might look
at the schedule and say, hey, you have a 20 -minute
gap between your work call and your son's soccer
practice. That's enough time for a short walk
together where you can connect. The machine implies
the logistics. The human supplies the love. That,
right there, is the difference between subservience
and Licklider symbiosis. You're using the machine
to remind you to be more human. Precisely. You're
using its computational power to serve your highest
values. Solution number three. This one is my
personal favorite, I think, because I'm a sucker
for analog things, reclaiming the tactile analog.
But my first question is, why is this a solution
to the AI problem? It kind of feels like running
away from it. It's not running away. It's balancing
the equation. It's about grounding. The source
has this amazing line. In an age of digital abundance,
friction is the ultimate luxury. Friction is
the ultimate luxury. Okay, unpack that for me.
Think about the digital world. Everything is
smooth, glass screams, instant answers, zero
resistance. If you want an image of a medieval
castle, you type some words and poof! There it
is. You don't have to quarry the stone, mix the
mortar or hoist the blocks. But we as human beings
evolved over millions of years in a world of
physical resistance, of gravity, of the grain
of wood, of the heft of a stone. When we lose
that constant feedback, we lose our anchor to
reality. We can start to feel like we're just
floating away in this entropic digital fog. So
the solution is to deliberately consciously build
friction back into our lives. Yes. And the source
suggests. Very specific, tangible activities.
Build a small wooden box with hand tools. Not
with a 3D printer. With a saw and a chisel. With
a saw and a chisel. Feel the resistance of the
wood grain as the saw bites into it. The wood
fights back. The screen never fights back. It
just yields instantly. Or another example. Write
a letter on good paper with the fountain pen.
Oh, the fountain pen. I love that. You have to
be careful with those. You can't just mash it
down like a cheap ballpoint. You have to find
the right angle, the right pressure. Exactly.
The ink has weight. The paper has texture. If
you pause your thought for too long in one spot,
the ink bleeds. That is feedback. It's real -world
physics talking back to you. An AI can simulate
the sound of a violin perfectly, but it cannot
simulate the feeling of the string vibrating
through the wood and into your fingertip and
jawbone. And that physical feedback loops back
into your psyche. It reminds you that you exist
in a physical body, in the real world. It's grounding.
It anchors you. Wiener and Licklider both knew
this. We are biological beings. We cannot just
upload our consciousness into the cloud and expect
to remain fully human. We need the tactile to
balance the digital. It's a fascinating paradox.
The more advanced and frictionless the AI gets,
the more valuable a smudged, handwritten note
becomes. Because it proves a human was there.
It proves time and effort and care were spent.
And in an emerging economy of instant, effortless
abundance, effort becomes the new currency of
love and meaning. Let's talk about solution number
four, curating message ecosystems. This sounds
a bit more social, more about community. This
is about how we talk to each other. It goes back
to that first lantern. Wiener's saying society
is a system of messages. If all our messages
become texts and tweets and algorithmically generated
feeds, society itself starts to degrade. It loses
coherence. So what's the practical ritual here?
What's the solution? It's simple and radical
at the same time. Gather friends for a physical
dinner, unplugged. A strict no phones on the
table rule. Okay, that's old school, but we've
heard put down the phone a million times. What's
the new twist here? The twist is in how you leverage
AI before and after the human event. You use
the AI as a research assistant. to prep provocative,
deep questions. You don't just show up and ask
how was work. You prime the pump. You go to your
AI and say, give me five powerful conversation
starters for a dinner party based on the philosophy
of Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey and Eric
Fromm's The Art of Loving. Oh, that is cool.
So you're using the AI to deliberately upgrade
the depth and quality of the human conversation?
Right. You aren't just gossiping or talking about
the weather. You're using the time to discuss
the nature of love or the structure of a meaningful
life. You're using the machine to provide high
-quality intellectual fuel for the human fire.
And then, and this is the really interesting
part, you record the dialogue with everyone's
permission, of course. And afterward, you feed
the transcript to a model and ask it to synthesize
the key themes, insights, and unresolved questions
from your group's conversation into a shared
document. So you're creating a living archive,
a record of your friend group's collective wisdom
over time. Exactly. You are using the technology
to capture, clarify, and preserve human connection,
not to replace it. It steers your little corner
of civilization away from alienation and toward
meaning. It transforms a simple dinner party
into a modern -day salon. It makes the conversation
feel like it mattered, like it wasn't just noise
that dissipated into the air. It combats the
entropy of forgetting. It creates a pocket of
shared order. And that brings us to the final
one, solution number five, stepping into vocation.
This is the big one. This is the end game of
the 5 ,000 days. This is the gift you bring back
from the underworld. And we really need to distinguish
between work or a job and a vocation. We do.
Work, in the industrial sense that we're leaving
behind, was often about survival, about utility,
about doing what the machine now does better.
Move this box from A to B. Calculate this column
of numbers. A vocation is different. It's a calling.
The source defines it as choosing pursuits that
machines can enhance but never ever truly own.
Okay, give us some concrete examples from the
source. Because people are panicked about their
jobs, they need to see what this looks like.
Mentoring. A great example, mentoring young people
in deep reading, critical thinking, or ethics.
And AI can teach you facts. It can explain the
quadratic formula. But it cannot model what it
means to be a wise, compassionate, resilient
adult. That is a fundamentally human vocation.
Another one mentioned was the neighborhood repair
cafe. I love that idea. It's brilliant. You're
fixing objects, yes, but you're also fixing stories.
You aren't just fixing a broken toaster. You're
gathering your community. You're teaching skills.
You're showing that things and people have value
and are worth repairing, not just discarding.
Or something like philosophical inquiry, writing
essays that explore the meaning of life in this
new era. These are all the things we told ourselves
we didn't have time for when we were grinding
60 hours a week just to pay the rent. And this
is the elixir. And the language of the hero's
journey. These vocations are the gifts the hero
brings back from the ordeal. You went through
the de -skilling, you faced the dark night of
obsolescence, and you came back with the most
valuable skills of all. The ability to mentor,
to repair, to think deeply, to connect. It's
powerful stuff. It really does reframe the whole
fear narrative around AI. It suggests that maybe
the job as we knew it was actually holding us
back from our true vocation. It does. It tells
us that this interregnum, this messy, chaotic
13 -year period, isn't a waiting room where we
hope for the old world to come back. It's a construction
site. And we are the architects of what comes
next. So as we start to wrap up this deep dive
into Part 12, Resurrection and the Reversal,
let's just try to bring it all together. We've
gone from a World War II anti -aircraft gun all
the way to a neighborhood dinner party. The hero
rises. That's the stage of the journey we are
entering now. Obsolescence has dismantled the
old identity, the old ego. It hurt. It was terrifying.
But the resurrection isn't something that happens
to you. It's something you build. In the interregnum,
the 5 ,000 days is the resurrection chamber.
It's the workshop. Exactly. And the call to action
for you, for everyone listening, is to use Wiener
and Licklider as your guides. Use these five
solutions as your tools. Do not just try to survive
the reversal. Don't just cling to your old job
description and hope for the best. The goal is
to emerge sovereign. The 5 ,000 days continue.
The journey deepens. That's how the source ends
this section. And I want to leave our listeners
with one final provocative thought. It comes
straight from Norbert Wiener himself. Let's hear
it. In his work, Wiener wrote, We are not stuff
that abides, but patterns that perpetuate ourselves.
Patterns that perpetuate ourselves. Say a bit
more about that. We aren't our atoms. They're
replaced every few years. We aren't our job titles.
They can be taken away in an instant. We are
the patterns of our thoughts. our behaviors,
our relationships, our values, our love. That
is the us that continues. So the question for
you listening right now is this. In this new
era where the machines can replicate almost any
pattern of labor or skill, what patterns are
you choosing to weave? That is the question.
That is the only question that matters now. Thank
you for listening to the Read Multiplex podcast.
This has been our deep dive into the 5 ,000 Days
series. Go build your feedback loops. Reclaim
the tactile. And we will see you on the other
side of the reversal. See you there.