Oliver Burkeman: You have the option of living with vastly more creativity and calm than the anxiety-merchants would have you believe – provided you can summon the strength of mind to screen them out. [I love the phrase “inner clench” Oliver uses!] …

I think this is the best way to stay calm and level-headed during a moment of speculation about technological change that will, I’m pretty sure, come to seem embarrassingly hyperbolic. Even if I’m wrong about that, I think it’ll still be the way to produce the kind of work people will pay you for, because the work will come from aliveness, which is ultimately what people most want to feel and to connect with. And even if I’m wrong about that – which I highly doubt – it’ll still be the way to have spent your time on earth living a fuller, more vibrant and absorbing life. Really experiencing, that is, the trembling and poignant and mysterious reality of this uncertain state, instead of clenched and scared and fighting it every step of the way.