I’m burned out on optimization.

Is it just me?

I don’t want to do life faster. I want to live slower.

I want to noodle on ideas even when they can’t be monetized.

I want to listen without anticipating the response.

I want to feel time, not manage it.

I want to know what matters to me, not what an algorithm decides matters.

I want to feel and learn and make mistakes.

I don’t want to optimize myself into oblivion.

I want to live and be human.

Something tells me that optimization defeats the point.