A short spoken monologue by Jason M. Lemkin expressing strong anxiety about AI and offering practical coping advice: immerse yourself in local AI meetups and hackathons, socialize with peers who share the stress, accept that increased pace/output is the new normal, and either adapt to the faster pace or quit. The tone is candid, urgent, and advisory.
And I am so petrified of what AI is doing and how I'm not ready for it. Are you more petrified after this? No, I'm just the same petrification. Same petrification is when you got here. Okay, but I've dropped everything. I'm here for two months just to learn. What do I do? Listen, it's good. First of all, if nothing else, in sf, there's endless meetups, hackathons left a thons, mcp, a thons. Like, just ingratiate yourself in it so that you. The stress that Aaron's feeling, that Yamin is feeling, that you're feeling, that you're just acclimated to, it's a new normal. So just. I mean, I know it sounds silly, but it's not like, adjust to the stress, right? It is the new normal. Adjust to the pace, adjust to the 2x pace. Even me, like, it's not the same, but even I'm working in terms of output. And Amelia too. We're working twice as hard as 12 months ago, right? And I don't. I have my own stresses. But listen, your life's more stressful than mine. I'm working twice as hard me as a year ago. Adjust to it. Adjust it or quit. Right? And I know you're not going to quit because you're here, but adjust or quit, that's the best advice I can. Right? And then. And again, this is only sort of helpful, right? I'm just trying to be a therapist, meet all these people, hang out with more folks that are stressed out. Right? Go. If you want an sf, if you're ever doing so, you literally can go to a hackathon or an AI meetup every night, right? There's just almost too many. Right? But even if you don't really care about the content, socialize with the people that are stressed out, right? And not so much that you want to jump off the roof and then figure out a way to work twice as hard. Just to clarify, maybe the stress, you know, it's not therapeutic. Question.
