Why I Decided to Become a Morning Runner — Again

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  Why I Decided to Become a Morning Runner — Again After two years of injuries and excuses, the answer was embarrassingly simple. I just had to wake up earlier. I. The Hunger to Run For the past two years, the pattern was always the same. Train a little, race, get injured, spend months unable to run. Recover just enough, race again, get hurt again. Despite years of running, I was going nowhere. This year, I changed one thing: I stopped chasing times and focused on staying healthy. The results? A full marathon finish. A 100km ultra finish. Both without injury. After every previous race, I'd been limping for weeks or unable to run for months. This time, I could lace up again within days. I didn't realize how extraordinary that was until I experienced it. That difference — between pushing too hard and coming home in one piece — deserved a closer look. Pushing too hard → Injury Finishing healthy → C...

The AI Singularity is Coming, But Why Does Nobody Care About My Future? (Part 1)

A ordinary Father’s Survival Diary in the AI Era

The bookstores are in a frenzy.
Yuval Harari warns that AI will hack humanity, and Ray Kurzweil predicts we’ll achieve immortality by 2045 through the "Singularity."

Superintelligence, eternal life, technology surpassing mankind—it all sounds grand and heroic.

But it’s strange. The moment I turn off the TV, instead of feeling heroic, I start thinking about my credit card statement. Humanity’s future is important, but next month's living expenses are urgent.

I. The Missing Question

Experts ask, "Will AI replace humans?" or "How will humanity evolve after the technological singularity?"

But I’m curious about much more mundane and desperate things.
"Will my paycheck survive?"
"Can I maintain my current standard of living 10 years from now?"

They say AI will surpass human intelligence, but my bank balance crossed its "extinction point" a long time ago.

Even if the Singularity gives me an immortal body, living forever with a zero balance... wouldn't that be a life sentence rather than a utopia? It's a joke, but it's not funny at all.

II. Why Are We Left Out?

Why is there no room for the stories of ordinary people like us in the AI discourse?

First, because middle-class anxiety isn't "cool." The extinction of the human race is philosophical, but a father’s frozen salary feels pathetic and small.

Second, because the solutions offered are lazy. To a 40-something barely surviving the day between tuition fees and mortgage interest,

Telling them to "learn coding" is as irresponsible as telling a drowning person to "study the physics of swimming."

We only hear "study AI." But my anxiety isn't the kind of problem that can be solved by cramming for a test.

III. My Real Fear

To be honest, I’m not afraid that AI will completely take my job. I’m afraid it will slowly make me "cheap."

My salary not rising, my work becoming a "replaceable average," my expertise being diluted into a sea of mediocrity.

This is a much more realistic horror.

A job might remain, but if the price drops, life collapses. We lose our standing in life long before we lose our jobs.

This doesn't make the news, which makes it even more terrifying.

IV. So, This Series Is...

This is not about shouting that AI is scary, nor is it a guide to getting rich through AI.

I am no expert. I’m just a small business owner and a father, calculating monthly revenue and feeling a bit of vertigo at the speed of AI.

But one thing is clear: if I just sit back and watch the grand discourse, my life might collapse first.

So I choose to record this. Not as a teacher with the answers, but as a fellow traveler looking for a way.

What must I prepare so that my standard of living doesn't disappear before the Singularity arrives?

This isn’t a grand prophecy. It’s a realistic, somewhat bitter, yet determined "Survival Record" of a middle-class father trying to hold his ground.

The Singularity may arrive in 2045,
but the disappearance of the middle class might arrive much sooner.

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