AI May Move Your Mountain Earlier Than You Think
AI May Move Your Mountain Earlier Than You Think
A conversation today made me connect two ideas I had never really put together before.
Abraham Maslow gave us the hierarchy of needs — security, belonging, esteem, and ultimately self-actualization. His Toward a Psychology of Being explores that growth toward becoming more fully human. (Simon & Schuster)
David Brooks, in The Second Mountain, asks what happens after success stops being enough — when life becomes less about achievement and more about vocation, family, community, faith, service, and commitment. (Penguin Random House)
AI may make these two ideas collide much earlier than we expected.
Some experienced professionals may suddenly be pushed backward toward questions of security, relevance, belonging, and identity.
Others may reach financial or professional success sooner and start asking:
What am I doing this for?
That is why the COBOL generation keeps sticking with me.
Experienced engineers are not obsolete.
Often they need translation, not replacement.
And maybe the AI age is not just changing careers.
Maybe it is changing when we are forced to ask what our next mountain is.
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