The Gaziza Lens | Issue No. 2 What the Ocean Teaches You About AI-Era Careers

Sunset in Hikkaduwa Beach, Sri Lanka

Hey,

I'm writing this from Sri Lanka.

Every evening, I've been watching the sun set over the ocean. Colombo. Mirissa. Unawatuna. Hikkaduwa. The Indian Ocean stretching endlessly in front of me.

There's something about the ocean that resets your sense of scale. It reminds you how small we are. How finite everything is.

Just before coming here, I lost a friend to cancer. It was quick. Final. Disorienting.

And then I landed here. In a place where the ocean reminds you every day that time is limited.

But it does something else too.

It makes you present. Awake. Fully here. The warmth. The sound of waves. The salt air.

It doesn't let you dwell on grief too long. And my friend wouldn't have wanted that anyway.

And It Clarified Something I've Been Circling For Months

How absurd it is that we spend our finite lives optimizing spreadsheets and attending meetings that don't matter.

Especially now, when AI is about to make that impossible to ignore.

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The Question AI Forces Us to Ask

Last issue, I wrote about what becomes scarce when AI makes everything abundant.

The answer was simple: judgment, curation, relationships — the human skills that require our humanity.

But Here's The Uncomfortable Truth

Most of us aren't doing that work.

We're doing the work AI can automate — reports, decks, optimization cycles that feel productive but create little meaning.

So the real question isn't: "How do I stay employed in the AI era?"

It is: "If AI takes the soulless tasks, what will I do with my reclaimed humanity?"

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What The Ocean Reminds You

Standing in front of something vast resets your priorities.

Your performance reviews shrink. Your LinkedIn profile fades. Your career anxieties lose their urgency.

What matters is how you spend your finite time. Who you connect with. What you create. How you make people feel.

Most corporate work doesn't require

📌 What the Ocean Teaches You (Anupgarh)
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