Modern busyness equates motion with meaning, driving constant activity and notifications that substitute velocity for purpose and erode genuine progress.
Hobbies are private forms of self-cultivation that often bore others and face decline as society emphasizes publicity, productivity, distraction, and costly 'grindification'.
When my kids wrote a song using AI, all I could think was: you missed the fun part | Myke Bartlett
Generative AI enables children to skip creative processes, prioritizing finished outputs and raising concerns that traditional schooling and creative skills may become redundant.