AI Photbia -- fear that easier = cheating our cultural obsession with equating struggle with value they're clinging to an old belief that if work isn't visibly difficult to produce, it must be less valuable an age-old assumption that worth must be measured in struggle > By shifting the locus of effort, AI forces us to confront our dysfunctional relationship with work. It holds up a mirror to our culture’s deeply rooted belief that struggle equals value—and in that reflection lies a rare opportunity: to reimagine work in terms of outcomes, not optics; human flourishing, not performance theater. > Our attachment to suffering as a proxy for value has been undermining our work, well-being, and creativity for centuries. east:: toil ≠ craft / [[Productive friction fosters learning, taste, and judgement|productive friction]]