The human era, the Anthropocene, is entering one of its most anticipated chapters. And with it, I think we are entering a strange moment in which we will have to reconsider where our attention belongs.

Learning the tools matters. Understanding how they work and knowing how to direct them is foundational.

It's like you spent your whole life walking, and one day someone hands you a car. Are you still a walker? who are you?

Nobody should build their identity around knowing how to plug things into a wall.

So what deserves much more attention, and this is almost a heads up:

- What do you want?

- What do you value?

- What kind of life do you want to build?

We have access to an intelligence that, in a lot of ways, is already better than ours. It knows more than you and it doesn't get tired. It's like having a mentor sitting next to you all the time, one who has read everything.

And most of us are using it just to optimize TikTok Ads.

I get it. Work is work. But if something smarter than you is willing to help, why only point it at your job? Why not point it at your life? At the thing you'll have for a few more decades? At the version of you that you keep saying you'll start next month.

I think that's what it's really for. Using it to launch yourself into a different life, instead of doing the same one faster.

Your life is not more complex than fixing a web design glitch.

Your life is not more complex than a retention problem.

Your life is not more complex than training an LLM.

In many ways, it's simpler. Most of it comes down to a few decisions: where you want to go, and where your whole mind is pointed at each moment. Because with every tiny prompt you type everyday, you eventually pull your thoughts, your fears, and your dreams into it.

All of that sits further upstream on YOU

And isn't that itself mind-blowing? At the exact moment when we can outsource more of our thinking than ever before, changing our own minds may matter more than ever.

And there has probably never been a better time to do it.

We talk a lot about prompt engineering in a time when prompting has become easy. Fine.

But what are you prompting toward?

Knowing what you want is the one thing you can't delegate.

When intelligence becomes abundant, and information processing becomes abundant, and a lot of today's jobs and companies turn into something else, direction and attention become scarce. And that is the risk.

You get hours back on the weekends thanks to AI, and then you fill them with more of the same? The same things. More output. More..?

At some point you hit the limit, and you realize there's no point in staying in that limbo. Trying to be more productive. Trying to ride the new wave. Doing more and more and more.

Who you become is basically what you let in, plus what you do with it. What you read, who you listen to, what you scroll. And then what you decide and what you make. Input plus output. That's you.

If that's true, attention is less about productivity and more about who you are turning into. And if the hours AI saves you go straight back into more feeds and more tools, you don't really get time back.

For me, it's already changing: reading about large language models, learning one more framework, starts to feel a bit like learning astronomy, because I love astronomy, and learning about planets, satellites, stars, and the Earth… I'm probably never going to use it for anything practical (not in the short term, at least), so it’s just for fun, and that's fine.

As more knowledge and more ways to create become available to you, the question will be less about how much you can know or produce, and more about where you put your attention, what you choose to do with it, and where you want to go.

Where will you put your attention today?