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Just as jogging became popular when physical labor was automated by machines, I wonder if essay writing will become popular when intellectual labor becomes automated by machines. I think it’s a stretch though. The body erodes in a way that is visible and alarming, and so we quickly realize the need to stay moving. I don’t known if cognitive diminishment is as easy to notice.

2025 might be the best time to be a writer. We’re at the edge of a new time, a writer’s apocalypse, a golden age of the essay, or who knows. It’s a collective paranoia, a mass uncertainty, and it’s that kind of restlessness that requires writers to make sense of.