🔨 How work has shaped society

Jan 28, 2024

Our work, has defined our world since the dawn of human civilisation.

The evolution of our society is rooted in the evolution of our work.

We’ve seen 3 major inflection points in this journey.

3 major inventions have changed our work fundamentally -

This video from Big Think explains how -

How work has shaped society | James Suzman

The invention cities is an interesting point here. Reminds me of something Yuval Noah Harari said in his book Sapiens.

He asks, how were we able to invent cities?

We can co-operate in large numbers, because we can believe in common myths

Nations, religions, gods, cults, banks, money, status, society, justice - none of these things are scientific truths.

They don’t have a physical presence.

They just exist because we humans collectively agree that they exist.

And now, with the advent of AI, the knowledge economy is over.

We’re entering the allocation economy.

We’ll go from makers to managers.

Managers of large language models like ChatGPT.

We’ll have to learn how to allocate resources, which tasks are important, and which are trivial.

More interesting insights in this article -

An average nonfiction book is 100,000 words long.

It contains stories, examples, research references, and a whole lot of repetition of the same key ideas.

The main insights from a top-quality nonfiction book can be drilled down to 1 to 5 key ideas.

Yet, you end up having spent 6-8 hours of your precious time reading it, digesting it, and learning those insights.

If you don’t have that kind of time. We created the Keys to Wisdom for you.

It’s a collection of the top 3-5 ideas from the best non-fiction books in the world.

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Ayush & Aditi