Why Am I Telling You This?

Honestly, I’m tired of keeping up the appearance that I have life completely figured out.

Keeping up appearances is exhausting.
So I stopped. I deleted social media.
Friends who unsubscribed from this newsletter? Meh. That’s okay. (Seriously. 😄)

I think it’s time for us to find real friends—friends who will admit they don’t have life figured out either. Friends who will admit they’re suffering. Friends who know they need God and community just as much as the rest of us.

Unfortunately—or maybe fortunately—that time is now.

AI is about to completely rewrite our so-called “connected” world.

Phone calls where we don’t know if we’re talking to a human.
Video posts we don’t know are engineered.
Every interaction with a computer monitored.
Every car listening.
Servers replaced with video waitresses who can answer every menu question instantly.

Your local bank? The next Blockbuster. Closed. Online only.
Call centers fully automated by AI agents that speak flawless dialects.
Your favorite actor? Not real.
That new band you love? Not real either.

Pilots that no longer fly.
Drivers that no longer drive.
Writers that no longer write.
Coders that no longer code.
Soldiers that no longer fight.

On and on it goes.

The AI revolution isn’t a “tech shift.”
It’s a rewrite of the modern world.

So what then?

What do we do with ourselves when we’re no longer running around chasing money, status, or productivity?

I think the answer is simpler—and harder—than we want it to be.

We re-orient our lives around the one thing computers will never do well. We have to chase what is.... real

To love God.
And to love one another.

Happy Valentine’s Day!