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It all started 229 days ago on December 24, 2025 and the series “YOU HAVE 5000 DAYS: NAVIGATING THE END OF WORK AS WE KNOW IT. PART 1” was released. Today is August 9, 2026. And this ongoing series that began as an attempt to name and navigate the strange passage we are all living through, has been a surprising success. You and I have been tracing what I have called the Abundance Interregnum, that roughly thirteen and a half year corridor between the collapsing logic of work to survive and the still forming logic of voluntary creation in plenty. Early installments mapped the call to adve...
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You know, normally when you navigate a city, you kind of just trust the map in your hands. Right. Yeah. You don't really second guess it. Exactly. Like you look down at your phone, the blue line says, take a left on 4th Street. So you take a left. You just assume the infrastructure is solid.
The concrete is poured. The roads are paved. Right. You have this like shared implicit agreement with reality that the physical world is going to stay exactly where it is. Which is a baseline assumption of permanence, you know, like without that baseline,
long-term planning or honestly even just walking to the grocery store it becomes totally impossible. Yeah, I mean you rely on the environment being a fixed variable. Completely. But imagine you're walking down that exact same street, you look down at your map to check the
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