These reflections assume you've finished Convergence.
The question this book opens — what's left for a person to be, when intelligence and execution stop being scarce? — and doesn't close, because it doesn't close in one book.
A few things worth sitting with
- If the things you're good at stopped being rare, what about you would remain?
- Do you locate your worth in what you can do, or in something the doing was only ever pointing at?
- What have you been treating as your value that might only have been your usefulness?
When capability becomes common, the question quietly shifts from what can you do to what are you for. The two feel like the same question, right up until the day they aren't.
Read on: Identity. follows the question as it turns.
If you want to follow the inquiry beyond these reflections, there is a next door from here. No hurry. Start where you are.