Overcoming My 'AI Anxiety'

Anxiety is bad for your health. We all need to reach the point of sceptical fortitude and "intellectual self-defence".

Remember;

The job of the media industry is to convince you you're missing out on entertainments and knowing the latest trends and news.

The job of the fashion industry is to make you feel scruffy, under-dressed and out of vogue.

The job of the food industry is to make you feel fat, unhealthy and lacking proper nourishment.

And so on, and so on...

The job of all so-called "industries" and their attendant advertising projects is to mount a psychological assault on you, to undermine your confidence and provoke anxiety.

Once you realise this you can relax, safe in the knowledge that almost everything written in the press by breathless hype merchants about how everyone is going to be "left behind" ... is total shite unworthy of your attention.

The "Job industry" (the multi-billion nexus of education, certification, recruitment agencies, Linked-In, Glassdoor...) is no different. It is there to make you feel like an under-skilled, out of date, useless impostor who - despite two PhDs in STEM subjects - would be lucky to scrub floors. It's purpose is to psychologically undermines you in order to drive down wages.