Do you recently feel on edge most of the time? I do.

It's this constant feeling of missing out on something, of becoming obsolete, of frantically trying to keep up with technology developments.

Well, if you do, you're not alone.

I learned this when I listened to a podcast between Brené Brown and futurist Amy Webb.

Amy used this expression "Novelty is the New Normal", to illustrate the technology super-cycle we are currently going through. Similar to the steam engine, just on steroids. Driven by 3 things:

1. Artificial Intelligence.
2. Wearables
3. Generative Biology

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I won't deep dive on the specifics, it's a fascinating podcast. But this reminds me of this story I once read on Wisdom by Andrew Zuckerman, illustrated by the picture below.

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On the left is a calm pond - the life we crave for: still, quiet, predictable.

On the right a roaring waterfall - the time we find ourselves on: uncertain, noisy, bumpy.

And what we do as humans is: tell the waterfall to "STOP, STOP, be like the pond".

Yet it never does. And living in this AI time, it won't stop.

So it's normal to be worried and on edge. In fact, we should be worried of not being worried about being worried (yes I had to read that again).

Because it's here. Maybe it's not the pond we crave. But the waterfall that can propel us forward - if we make the technology work for us.

Find the full podcast here - https://brenebrown.com/podcast/whats-coming-and-whats-here/.

And don't worry about being worried. We're all going to live like that for a while.