The joy of learning.

What do I choose to do when the future is so uncertain? What should my focus be right now, when everyone is stressing about how nothing will be left for humans to do once AI takes over all our chores?

Physics.

Why physics? Won’t AI just automate that away too? Maybe it will. But honestly, who cares?

We’ve been taught that the only purpose of learning is to eventually get a job. I want, as Feynman put it, to have the ability to see the joy in understanding things. And I’m not saying this because I idolize Feynman in some personality-cult way. It’s just that I’ve experienced that feeling myself—those moments when you can retrace your ancestor’s history back to a supernova. When you take a hike and you realise that you and the mountain are closer than you think or care to admit. That you are not a part of nature, but nature that learned to talk about itself.

What happened to play? When you were a kid, you didn’t choose to play because it was productive. You played because it made you feel alive in the moment.

So what should you focus on? Play shamelessly, without anyone’s consent.