We live in an age of oversaturation and underutilization. So many resources, so little to show for it.

Indeed, humanity has never been through such an era of abundance.

For example, throughout history information was not as widely available as it is today. To access just a sliver of it required a great deal of one’s time, effort, and resources. Therefore, those who could access it made the most of it.

In contrast, today anyone can access any information extremely fast and at very little cost. We have in our pockets powerful supercomputers that are connected to superhighways of information.

Add to that AI and we are basically in information nirvana.

In seconds, you can get the answers to questions that Einstein could not even formulate.

And yet most of us are still woefully misinformed and disinformed.

There are hundreds of millions of articles on Medium, billions of videos on YouTube, and tens of billions of pictures on Instagram. And these are just three platforms.

It has all been said

Basically, everything that can be said has been said. And then it has been said again. And again. And still, every single second, thousands of images, videos, and text files are uploaded to the Internet.

Even as I write this article, I know that someone somewhere has already written about it. I am not the first and neither will I be the last.

Yet, I still continue to write.

I am at peace with the idea that I might never offer any new insight. Everything I say, as original as it might feel in my brain, is regurgitated from somewhere, from someone.

So, why do I still keep writing?

Initially, I was writing about being stuck. I wanted to explore why many of us are stuck in our lives and what we can do to change that. And then? I got stuck. The irony is not lost on me. So, I decided to do some research.

I got into a rabbit hole of articles and videos. At one point, I had close to thirty tabs open. Which got me wondering. With all this…