Augment Humanity

Slow down and augment your fellow man.

We are using AI incorrectly. It’s not in balance with the world. The love of the dollar is corrupting everything in existence. It’s taxing to the spirit and debilitating to the mind. We’re using AI incorrectly. We need to stop using it for sending email, stop using it for work. Stop chasing the datacenter dream. It’s going to completely break the land. Homo sapiens taxes the earth too much already. We need to be something else now: Homo balance. We need to focus on the sustainability of planet Earth.

And we’re using AI incorrectly. I just want to say, like, I’m tired of watching capitalists fire people and expecting AI to replace their laborers. If anything, it should be used to augment their laborers. It should be a boon. It should be a blessing. And it should be used within reason for important tasks. We don’t need a bunch of AI everywhere. Things were simpler without AI. And simpler is honestly a good thing. Yeah, it took a little longer, but hell, everyone was happy. Now it’s just like a small select group of capitalists treating the planet like a resource to extract. And we should have no destruction of planet Earth.

It’s late. I’ve had a few drinks. I know this isn’t enough to be a full piece. Most of what I say is always just intuition from observation. It’s just one perception. I get it, and I’m cool with that.

And here’s what’s actually bugging me tonight.

These executives are acting like planet Earth is their personal spreadsheet and labor is just a line item to delete. I’m just not down with it. It’s just, I mean, come on. Zeb Evans from ClickUp just laid off 22% of his company and called it “100x org.” Said the business is the strongest it’s ever been. Bragged about million-dollar salary bands for the people who stay. That’s the playbook right there: fire the many, mythologize the few. And it’s not new. The oil and gas industry has been running the same formula for decades. It’s just like, how much money do you have to make before you realize there’s not enough planet left to destroy, or enough left for anyone else to just enjoy? Like, it’s so crazy that you’re not thinking about future generations. That should just be something inherent to being human. You should always try to leave it better than you found it.

It gets back to stewardship, something I wrote about in one of my earliest blogs: just having a connectedness to the land, to your community, to humans. It’s so important for us to be in balance. And we should be able to lean on each other.

Lately I’ve just been feeling more connected to every human being around me. Something’s changing in me. I’m grateful for everyone I’ve come across in my life, and to those I haven’t met, and to the amazing world we live in. I yearn so much for my next adventure. I wonder where I’ll go.

But until then: corporate executives, please stop treating your labor as a cost to cut. Just don’t chase the hype. Just give some AI tools to your employees with a reasonable budget and focus on the humans doing the work, and let the AI help them do their job better. Augmentation. That is the word. Augmentation. Less data centers. Just keep a few around and just, you know, have some balance. We don’t need a ton of ‘em. It’s a cool technology, but we’ve got to spread the water around.

Everyone, have a good evening and good night.