Living through this AI craze is like if everyone in the world suddenly started talking about pool socks (which are socks you can wear in the pool).
At first it was just Speedo and Nike making highly specialized pairs for athletes but now everyone is in on it. They're prominently featured on the end caps of grocery stores. All of the newest cars offer a $12.99 a month subscription where you can get access to a special compartment in the trunk to store and dry your pool socks.
The media covers the manufacturing and economic impact of them breathlessly. CEOs of pool sock companies are overnight billionaire celebrities and being asked how pool socks will extend the longevity of the human species.
And people you've known for decades, seemingly stable, normal people, won't shut up about pool socks. They have favorite pairs they wear based on the weather, season, and chlorine level of the pool. One friend even talks up his $300 annual subscription where he gets special high performance pool socks.
Social media feeds are absolutely filled with photos of pool socks. Children are being taught to swim only in pool socks, it's so engrained in them that if they take them off underwater they flounder and gasp for air.
I still can't figure out what they're for or why you'd want them but I've given it a shot. I tried swimming in a pair and it just felt uncomfortable and unnecessary. I've been told with dedicated training and if I change how I fundamentally think about swimming I could go slightly faster than I could without pool socks but it'll be harder to go back to swimming without them.
And my boss is telling me that if I want to advance in my career I need to wear them 8 hours a day and find ways to use them in other places of my life: the bathroom, the kitchen, the garden. No one will want to hire me if I don't know how to use pool socks to their fullest.
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