A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.
I feel like that’s a fear for everybody that lived through Y2k. We came so dang close to everything breaking, and I think we came away from that with hubris and not foresight.
I made bank back then tho. I did a small project for a local company to get their stuff ready voor Y2K and they had a group of techs working on a lot of stuff. I started running with that crew and did job after job, mostly doing the exact same thing we did for the previous company. And the money was very good, since a lot of companies were scared they wouldn’t be ready.
For me it did feel very different, because everyone was afraid everything would break. But I was actively working on preventing stuff from going wrong. And in the end we did a very good job, all of our clients got through without any issues.
Now I feel like I’ve been thrown in the deep end of the pool and no matter how much I swim, I keep sinking further down.
I was pretty young when it was going on, so I didn’t really understand it until later. I just worry that we’ve, culturally, come away from it with a “oh, I guess it wasn’t that big of a deal after all, we can do this again next time” mentality and not a “it took a lot of hard work to keep this from happening, we should prepare better in the future” outlook.
I’ve got the same worry about the lessons we learned after the pandemic, now that I think about it, lol.
I feel like that’s a fear for everybody that lived through Y2k. We came so dang close to everything breaking, and I think we came away from that with hubris and not foresight.
Yeah I remember those days.
I made bank back then tho. I did a small project for a local company to get their stuff ready voor Y2K and they had a group of techs working on a lot of stuff. I started running with that crew and did job after job, mostly doing the exact same thing we did for the previous company. And the money was very good, since a lot of companies were scared they wouldn’t be ready.
For me it did feel very different, because everyone was afraid everything would break. But I was actively working on preventing stuff from going wrong. And in the end we did a very good job, all of our clients got through without any issues.
Now I feel like I’ve been thrown in the deep end of the pool and no matter how much I swim, I keep sinking further down.
I was pretty young when it was going on, so I didn’t really understand it until later. I just worry that we’ve, culturally, come away from it with a “oh, I guess it wasn’t that big of a deal after all, we can do this again next time” mentality and not a “it took a lot of hard work to keep this from happening, we should prepare better in the future” outlook.
I’ve got the same worry about the lessons we learned after the pandemic, now that I think about it, lol.