What Work Was Doing for Us
Everyone is arguing about AI and jobs. A deeper question intrigues me more: what was work doing for us that the paycheck wasn't?
Eric Turkington
est. 2026 · Amherst, MA
I think, I write, I build. This is where I put it all.
I build AI products for healthcare by day, and write about what all of this is doing to us by night. Essays on meaning, attention, and the human side of a rapidly shifting world. Photographs from wherever I happen to be.
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Everyone is arguing about AI and jobs. A deeper question intrigues me more: what was work doing for us that the paycheck wasn't?
While we're rightly worried about cognitive degradation from ever-smarter AI, is there a bull-case for humans to grow more intelligent alongside it?
What radical uncertainty asks of us, and why flinching away is the real cost.
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