We rarely name it, but we all feel it, a low, restless unease that trails us from morning alarm to late-night scroll. Experts call it “ambient anxiety,” and it’s the cost of living in a world that never powers down.
AI threatens routine jobs, but skilled trades, care work, arts, and first responders prove human judgment, empathy, and adaptability remain irreplaceable.
AI threatens routine jobs, but skilled trades, care work, arts, and first responders prove human judgment, empathy, and adaptability remain irreplaceable.
We rarely name it, but we all feel it, a low, restless unease that trails us from morning alarm to late-night scroll. Experts call it “ambient anxiety,” and it’s the cost of living in a world that never powers down.
There comes a time when the weight of your own decisions sits heavier than the expectations of others. For me, that time was in my early forties. The renovation business that once felt like my empire had become a treadmill.
