Your normal day contains technology ancient kings could not have imagined and problems they would instantly recognize.

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

You carry a device that would have seemed like magic to any ruler in history, and you use it while worrying about the same things they did, whether people respect you, whether the person you love is drifting, whether you are running out of time. The tools transformed completely and the interior did not.

That is a useful check on the idea that the next improvement in circumstances will settle you. It rarely has for anyone. Whatever you are hoping the new thing will fix, ask whether it is a problem of equipment or one of the old human ones, which are not solved by equipment.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which of your worries would be familiar to someone a thousand years ago?

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