Do you truly know how much you matter? Do you know that you are enough? If you feel devoid of hope or joy, I will give you some of mine until you find your own again. Sending you all warm wishes for a beautiful day. #PeaceAndLove# #NationalSuicidePreventionMonth#

I get it – you want more than just posts and replies 💋 You want someone who remembers you, who checks in, who makes you feel like you matter. I want that too. But I only have so much time… the ones who spoil me or join my VIP are the ones I can really give that to 🖤

💜 Reminder 4 You: Your voice matters—even if you’re still finding it. Your boundaries matter—even if others ignored them. Your healing matters—no matter how long it takes. You matter. Fully. Always. #EndRapeOnCampus# #EROC# #SAAM# #SAAM26# #BelieveSurvivors#

Don't let anyone convince you that Bitcoin belongs to Wall Street or big corporations. Its strength comes from the millions of people around the world who wake up every day and earn, save, stack, and hold. You matter. Bitcoin has always been a grassroots monetary revolution.

Giving advice beats asking for it: Going to someone for guidance keeps you in a passive frame of mind and makes you feel dependent on others. Find someone with a similar challenge and give them advice instead. In research by Lauren Eskris-Winkler and colleagues, people randomly assigned to give advice ended up more motivated and more confident. Part of feeling you matter is feeling you have something to contribute. Ask your kid for advice on a challenge you're facing. When they hit the same one, they'll believe they can figure it out. @AdamMGrant on @hubermanlab

Whether agents feel like liberation or loss depends on which joy of engineering you lean on most: making, knowing, or mattering. I've seen engineers say many conflicting things about agents: some are bubbling with excitement and for the first time ever, they feel like they're in an all-star lineup, while others mourn for the death of their craft, leaving them feeling hollow. I'm someone who works with agents every day, so I understand these sentiments. Rather than take sides, my hope is that I help you understand this in a more nuanced way. Too often we see two camps: people who love the joy of coding and people who love the joy of shipping. I think this is a gross oversimplification. Rather than asking you to pick a side, I want to ask you to reflect on the elements of your work that are the most nourishing to you. I think most of us have three sources of joy in our work, which we interweave in multiple ways: - The joy of making (or "flow"): the joy of molding things in our hand and feeling that sweet moment when it all clicks into place. - The joy of knowing: the joy of having such a strong mental model of our systems that we sense where a bug will be just by glancing at files. - The joy of mattering: the joy of knowing that you are the expert that it all relied on. Agents affect each of these elements in subtly different ways, which is why this discussion can be so complicated (we're mourning for different losses, and we're arguing from different places). The joy of making is easy to maintain. it just moves up a level. You're not shaping every line anymore. You're shaping the system or factory, in a loop fast enough that flow still happens. And when you miss the old flow, nothing stops you from writing the code yourself. The joy of knowing is especially at risk of erosion, so it's important to pay attention to it. Sometimes you'll realize you're reaching for a design you should be able to conjure automatically, but your intuition comes up with nothing. Picking an option from an agent's suggestions is a different skill than conjuring an idea in the first place. If you always pick and never conjure, the ability to conjure will erode. You can't direct something you don't even loosely understand. If you don't understand your own codebase, you're not directing an agent to do something, the agent is directing you. You matter. Obsolescence does affect you, but, you, your judgment, and especially your need for judgment, has never been more important. You get to decide what problems to solve, and you get to bring your taste and judgment to the work you do. You get to take ownership of it, all of it, whatever ships. That feeling of sadness isn't a sign of failure to adapt. Grief means that you're attached to something, and that it's natural to feel grief when you see your work changing in ways that feel unfamiliar. Lean into the things that make your work yours, and work on them more.

Elon Musk just said work is about to become optional. Not reduced. Not restructured. Optional. Musk: “AI and robotics will be able to provide all the goods and services that anyone could possibly want.” Every good. Every service. Every task you’ve ever been paid to perform. Done by something that never sleeps and never stops improving. The follow-up question was simple. What do people do when there’s nothing left to do. Musk: “People will be able to do whatever they want with their free time.” Humanity has chased that sentence for ten thousand years. It might be the most dangerous thing we ever catch. Strip away the job title. Strip away the paycheck. Strip away the alarm clock and the structure and the thing you tell strangers at a dinner party when they ask what you do. What’s left. That question is going to dismantle more people than any layoff notice ever could. We didn’t just build careers. We built selves. Entire identities organized around being useful. Being needed. Being the one who does the thing. The machine doesn’t replace your labor. It replaces the story you tell yourself about why you matter. Then Musk said something that landed harder than anything else in the conversation. Musk: “What I predict to happen is not the same as what I want to happen.” The man building this future just told you it’s not the one he’d choose. That’s not pessimism. That’s the rarest thing in tech right now. Honesty from someone with the vantage point to see what’s coming. He’s not pitching a utopia. He’s reading the math out loud. And the math doesn’t care what anyone prefers. We spent all of human history trying to free ourselves from labor. We’re about to discover that the struggle was the meaning. Not the obstacle to a good life. The architecture of one. The question Musk is really asking isn’t economic. It’s whether humanity can survive getting exactly what it always wanted.