Notes To Self: Living Through Noise

You wake up in the hour of dawn, with your phone alarm blaring. Stupid alarm, you hit the snooze and fall back into sleep.

Seemingly moments pass in your trance like state, and a lingering sensation of deep unease passes through you. You force yourself awake and realize that you are late. One more day of skipping gym, no big deal.

You immediately check your phone. Your first pit-stop is at Slack, you check to see if you had broken anything with the previous release. Phew, nothing yet, nothing for now.

You slowly, unconsciously creep into Instagram and spend mindlessly scrolling through reels. You are just taking a break, it’s alright, you assure yourself.

When you come back to your senses, an hour has passed and you are still in the toilet.

You rush out, brush, shower, get dressed and rush to your office.

It’s the same job with similar task as yesterday, or the day before, or the whole year for that matter. You have pawned yourself to become a network router. Passing messages sincerely through Slack.

To avoid facing this overwhelming realization, you check LinkedIn. Dumb decision, buddy.

You are bombared with 15 posts by AI bros, boasting about how AI is gonna make you moot. Your skills are worthless and honestly you should consider quitting. They are also making $3M MRR, by the way.

You scroll further, hoping to capture something of value. You run across new age messiahs preaching how AI is going to change the world. It is a brand new paradigm, analogous to some Industrial Revolution. Ending with some predictions of the future.

The deep fear starts devouring your heart, you feel uneasiness wash over you.

Sadness, anxiety and worry start seeping into your emotional plane of existence with a startling realization: “Maybe I am useless”.

This is the baseline anxiety which we face on a day-to-day existence. If you don’t face any of this, skip this post, it is not for you.

I have come to a realization that all of this, is just Noise.

Being hyperconnected didn’t make us less lonely (Social Media doesn’t promote l'appartenance) . So, why do we assume that being hyper-informed will lead to making better decisions.

The antidote to anxiety is action. The antidote to noise is to pick an idea, and follow it to the deepest end. Add a time constraint, and label it as an experiment.

There is no failure while experimenting.

Godspeed.