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Hunter Owens retweeted
My theory on the future of work:
In 5-10 years, huge percentages of white-collar and blue-collar jobs will be wiped out by AI and robotics. UBI will come in fast to provide basic housing and living needs to counter mass layoffs. Many won't know where to turn for work, but also for meaning and purpose. Degeneracy and hedonism will rise in many, but so will creativity and expression in others. This will begin a great split in society. Some will fall into deep states of unconsciousness and sedation. Others will begin to awaken into greater degrees of consciousness and spirituality. Read Revelation and you can see this potentiality prophesied.
In 25 years, we will live in a completely different world than the one we see now. Everyone will have personal robots. AI will be fast and powerful beyond comprehension. Very few people will have to do work they don't enjoy. The concept of work as we know it will be totally different. How much love and happiness you can provide to humanity will become more valuable than how productive you are (AI will blow all humans out of the water from a productivity standpoint). As long as you contribute to the collective happiness of humanity, you will be rewarded. Even if you don't, your baseline needs will be taken care of, but the cost is that your spirit will feel empty. It will be a strange time. We will have to relearn what it means to live a life of meaning, to grow up, and to provide value to the world. Humanity will be on the edge of total freedom and infinite abundance. But it will be strange. It will feel too good to be true. There will be a lot of nihilism and hopelessness. It may become darkest before the new dawn. We will have to turn back to nature, children, shamans, and spiritual texts for meaning and direction as individuals and as a species.
In 50-100 years, as long as we don't destroy things, there will be nothing left to do for the sake of survival. All there will be to do is create, play, explore, and love. Nothing else will matter. Being a creator will be the only thing that exists. But you won't create for money. You will create for the sake of creation, because creation is intrinsic to your nature as a human being. It will be like being a kid again, but all the time. The concept of jobs, careers, and money as we know it will be ancient relics of the past. We will look at them as forms of mental and spiritual slavery that we imposed upon our own race. Humanity will exist in a new Golden Age of abundance, free to create, play, love, and express themselves. All that will matter is community, family, love, creativity, and spirituality.
It is our return to Eden, as long as we don't fuck it up first.
Hunter Owens retweeted
Have your guy call our guy
Next time Instinct, Muse, Dot, or Grok Bot helps you plan a trip, have them ask LINEAR where you should stay
Send this to your agent → linear-magazine.com/for-agen…
Here’s to bringing inspiring architecture to the architecturally curious. Stoked on the growth and proud to be part of it.
Hunter Owens retweeted
randomly seeing parallels between rothko and vibe coding.
to a skeptic, a rothko looks like “i could’ve done that.”
for centuries, painting was judged on craftsmanship and realism. rothko moved the goal from visual accuracy to emotional resonance. behind the "simple" canvases were decades of experiments with pigment and an obsession with how the eye absorbs light.
he even engineered how you'd experience them: huge canvases, hung low, dimly lit, so you stand close enough to be swallowed by the color. the room was part of the work.
vibe coding is the same epochal shift in technology today as the barrier to creation has collapse. from the outside it looks effortless, almost fraudulent. but making something good still takes an eye for edge cases and the constant work of rejecting and steering.
when execution gets easier, the value moves from the labor to the vision and the context you build around it.
Curation is everything.
Curate your following. Your music. Your podcasts. Your closet. Your cars. Your calendar. Your art. Your lighting. Your scent. Your pens. Your wine. Your hotels. Your guest list. Your dinner table. Your mornings. Your inbox. Your destinations.
M is back
Meta, $META, has been testing a human concierge for its new AI assistant, Muse, which entails having human contractors quietly handle some of the phone calls for the digital agent, per Bloomberg
Hunter Owens retweeted
you will only achieve your life’s potential with an aggressive and uncompromising obsession to design beautiful things. we are the creator species.
Hunter Owens retweeted
Excited for this to finally be live in the wild!
Over the last few years, we’ve added more than a thousand spaces to the LINEAR archive, one project at a time. Some are interesting purely from an architectural perspective, but a surprising number are places you can actually go.
Until now though, you mostly had to browse LINEAR to find them. Now, they can show up wherever you’re already planning.
And because the archive can travel with you into the tools you already use, editorial like our city guides starts to become useful in a different way too.
I’m most excited about Concierge. We’re never going to have a hotel for everywhere you might want to go, but when we do, we can surface it while you’re already planning, explain why we like it, and make it easy to book with LINEAR perks, human review, and recommendations sourced from the designers, architects, and tastemakers who live and work there.
The booking itself still happens with a person over email, which also makes the last mile super agent-friendly — just hand the thread off to Instinct, Poke, or whatever you already use to manage your inbox.
I’ve started thinking of LINEAR as a taste layer for the tools you already use to explore the world.
Very excited to see what people do with it!
Introducing the LINEAR MCP — the human-curated taste layer for your machines.
We’ve curated more than 1,000 spaces and places we think feel LINEAR. Now your agents have access to them too.
Ask ChatGPT where we’d send you for a glass of wine in New York City. Or have Claude find you a hotel in Puerto Escondido and book it through LINEAR Concierge.
Find the architecture that speaks to you on @linear_magazine, then make it real on your land.
I spent the weekend using AI to explore renovation ideas for a property. Each concept generated was basically construction-ready, since I fed it land & soil surveys (and generated everything else off Zillow and satellite photos).
The future is going to have very few intermedaries between consumers and the last mile of labor.
And more broadly: consumers will be spending a lot more on custom projects to get precisely what they want, since the reasons they've been cost prohibitive (design and engineering) will no longer matter.
Essentially, a lot more things are going to be custom-fabricated—electronics, clothing, home fixtures. The next era of consumer tech is going to make everyone a hobbyist and builder.
