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NORMAN DOORS

Have you ever had trouble opening doors? Meaning, you push doors that are supposed to be pulled, pull doors that should be pushed. If you continually get a door wrong, is it your fault? NO! It's the designer's fault. These kinds of doors are called "Norman Doors," named after the design guru Don Norman. A simple definition of Norman Doors would be, "Any door which is confusing or difficult to use." According to don norman, "an ideal door would be the one where you walk up to it and walk through it. You're not aware that you opened the door or shut it." You must be wondering what else can be to a door except for hanging "do not disturb" signs. Imagine a beautiful door, but you are confused about how to open it. To solve this problem, you can put a label on a door that says push or pull. But, doors usually don't have a label on them. Then you can use the vertical plate and supporting pillars to indicate what to do without messing...

How to Make Yourself Irreplaceable to AI

AI can take the repeatable 70%. The 30% left is the part worth getting good at. I keep seeing the same two searches pop up next to each other: "will AI take my job" and "how to make yourself irreplaceable to AI." Same fear, but the second one is actually useful, because it assumes you have some control here. You do, mostly. Let's get into it. Quick answer: You make yourself irreplaceable to AI by owning the roughly 30% of your job AI can't touch (judgment, negotiation, relationship-building, and messy problem-solving), then proving it with certifications, portfolio work, and a resume that documents outcomes instead of tasks. The people getting displaced aren't the ones AI is "smarter" than. They're the ones who never moved past the automatable 70%. The 30% rule, and why it matters more than any job title If you've spent any time reading about AI and work lately, you've probably run into the "30% rule." It's not an o...

What Skills Should I Teach My Child to AI-Proof Their Career?

You can't predict the job. You can absolutely build the thinking that survives it. Okay, so this is the question that actually keeps me up more than "Will my kid's dream job exist?" Because even if the job title survives, what actually goes inside that job is going to look nothing like it does now. My kid's not going to need me to predict the right career. She's going to need the right underlying skills, whatever career she ends up picking. So let's get concrete about what those actually are, not just "creativity, good luck." Quick answer: The skills that hold up regardless of which job your child eventually picks are analytical and critical thinking, creative problem-solving, adaptability, and basic AI/tech literacy, in that rough order of importance according to the WEF's most recent skills data. You build these through a mix of coding education (yes, still worth it, for reasons that aren't really about coding), hands-on STEM play, and...

TRICK AND TREAT

After an exhausting day of work, I feel the need to reward myself or treat myself. Whenever possible throughout that day, I treat myself to some dark chocolate and one or two episodes of an anime. This treat makes my day! Never punish yourself for not being productive. You may think it will adequately affect you because, for some people, punishment relieves frustration. But the truth is punishment creates trauma. No matter how busy you are, always find time to treat yourself to something you desire, it may be food, tv show, or reading a book. You will see the results of this little trick in your work. You will be more productive. Photo by amirali mirhashemian on Unsplash

Don't Let AI Take Over: A Parent's Guide to Raising Kids in the AI Era

AI isn't going away. The goal is teaching them to hold the reins, not hide from it. My daughter asked our smart speaker a question last week, got an answer, and just... trusted it. Didn't ask me to check it, didn't seem to consider that it might be wrong. That's when it hit me that "AI taking over" isn't some distant sci-fi thing I need to worry about for her someday. It's already sitting on the kitchen counter, and it's already shaping how she thinks about where answers come from. So I did what I always do when something worries me: went and actually looked into it, instead of just doomscrolling about it. Quick answer: AI isn't going to "take over" your family in one dramatic moment; it's already showing up in small ways: smart speakers, AI chatbots, homework tools, algorithm-fed feeds. The real job for parents isn't blocking all of it; it's building boundaries (screen time frameworks, family media agreements, the right ...

Will AI Really Take My Job? What Experts Actually Say

The experts aren't lying to you. They're just looking at different parts of the same picture. A sk ten AI experts if your job is safe and you'll get eleven answers. That's not a joke; it's basically what's happening right now. Geoffrey Hinton, the guy who helped invent the deep learning that makes modern AI possible, is out there warning about "massive unemployment." Meanwhile, Anthropic's own researchers looked at actual usage data from millions of real conversations and found... not much sign of it. Yet. So who do you believe? Honestly, both, a little. Let's actually walk through what each side is looking at, because the disagreement itself tells you something useful. Quick answer: No credible expert thinks AI is about to wipe out most jobs overnight. But there's real disagreement on timeline and severity. The optimists point to no measurable unemployment spike so far. The pessimists point to a 14% hiring slowdown for young workers in A...

Will My Child's Dream Job Still Exist When They Grow Up?

The job title might change. What made them want it in the first place probably won't. My kid told me last month she wants to be a marine biologist. Last year it was a YouTuber. The year before that, a "dog doctor." I didn't correct any of it, because honestly, that's not the point at this age. But it did get me down a rabbit hole of actually researching whether the jobs kids dream about now will even exist by the time they're old enough to apply for them. Here's what I found, and it's more reassuring than the headlines make it sound. Quick answer: Most of the jobs kids currently dream about, doctor, teacher, vet, athlete, police officer, are structurally safe, not because AI can't touch them at all, but because they depend on trust, physical presence, or human connection that automation doesn't replace, it reshapes. The bigger risk isn't that your child's dream job disappears. It's entry-level pathways into any career getting narro...

Jobs AI Can't Replace (And Why): The Careers Still Safe From Automation

AI can process the facts. It still can't be the one held responsible when the call is wrong. Every AI headline eventually turns into a job-loss headline. Which is fair; some jobs really are shrinking. But the "AI is coming for everything" framing skips a more useful question: which jobs, specifically, is it not coming for, and why not? There's an answer, and it's not vague. It comes down to accountability, trust, and physical presence in situations too messy for a model to safely predict. In short: AI struggles to replace jobs that require physical dexterity in unpredictable settings, life-or-death accountability, deep human trust, or ethical judgment under pressure. That's why electricians, surgeons, therapists, judges, and firefighters remain firmly human jobs, even as AI automates large chunks of what surrounds them. Why some jobs resist automation and others don't McKinsey Global Institute's research puts a hard number on this: fewer than 5% of...

Jobs AI Can't Replace (And Why): A Framework for Designers

AI can generate the layout. It can't tell you why this one, for this brand, for these users. Every few weeks, a new headline shows up promising that AI is about to eat another profession whole. Copywriters. Radiologists. Now, apparently, designers. If you're early in your design career, this isn't background noise. It's the thing that shows up right before you fall asleep. So let's actually answer the question properly, instead of doing what every other "jobs AI can't replace" article does: dumping a list of professions on you and calling it insight. Here's a simple way to think about it. There's a real, structural reason some jobs resist automation and others don't. Once you understand that reason, you stop asking "will AI take my job?" and start asking a much more useful question, one you can actually act on. In short: Jobs AI can't replace share four traits: physical presence in unpredictable settings, high-stakes judgm...

Stay Hungry

Hunger, not for food, for reading. We crave food, there are a lot of reasons one of them is Emotions because we need to suppress the uncontrollable intense desire. The desire towards a particular food. We can’t live without food, likely we can’t live without reading too. I like to read new things, new books. I read to gain knowledge and entertain myself. I like to know things that others don’t know. I feel charismatic. Reading is good for people. It may help you get knowledge or it may help you fall asleep or reading might help you lower the stress through laughter or tears, and offer exposure to perspectives different from your own. For me, reading helps me to escape reality. I go into the world that I want, the way I want, a world where I am strong and I can do anything which I am not able to do in the world where I exist. This is the reason why I am always hungry for reading. Reading is the most precious gift a human can ask for. I bet you already know how to...

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