Ada Zuba
Bio
Hi everyone! here to write and when I’m not writing, I’m either looking for Wi-Fi or avoiding real-world responsibilities. Follow along for a mix of sarcasm, random observations, and whatever nonsense comes to mind. "We're all mad here"
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Moving from Big City to Small Town
I grew up in one of the largest cities in Canada. There was always somewhere to go and somewhere to be; everyone was always in a rush to go, go, go. No one has time to stop and say hello as you pass them, and why would you? Why would you stop and say hello to a stranger? There was no need to. There is something different here. I moved from the hustle and bustle of a beautiful city close to the mountains to right in the mountains. Strangers have stopped to wish you a happy New Year when they had AirPods in their ears. The pace is different, everything is slow, and people have time to stop and say hello. However, if you want to get stuff done on the weekend good luck. A lot of places are closed. We were thinking to get our British Columbia Drivers licenses and we can’t do it without my husband taking time off work or starting early and rushing to get it done before end of day which happens to be at 4:30 pm. Yet again there’s no rush, people take their time talking to cashiers, not everyone avoids eye contact and are in and out of stores with a blink of an eye. Everyone talks to you like they’ve known you for years.
By Ada Zuba14 days ago in Motivation
Stuck on Life
“You know, when you're stuck in the same old routine in the city, it's easy to get caught up in the grind and forget what life is really about. But then you take a step back, get out of town, and watch the sunset, and it's like a whole new world opens up.”
By Ada Zuba2 months ago in Motivation
Touch Grass
Words that people have used to describe me: Down-to-earth, kind, generous, spontaneous, flexible, adaptable. Yet, the term down-to-earth sticks to me the most. People in my life have used this to describe me, and I never really thought twice of the meaning of it until very recently. It means I am in touch with reality and reasonable, which I completely agree. Lately, it seems that we are so out of touch with reality, and I think that AI has a lot to do with it. We use AI more than we care to admit, to make videos, to envision the perfect dream home, to help us write that email that we have been worried about writing to your boss or an external stakeholder. It does make our lives easier, but it takes away certain elements such as creativity, thinking and thinking critically, solving problems, and writing code. Our brains are getting lazy because of AI. The greatest philosophers of our time have said numerous quotes about creativity, and here we are crushing it. For example, the philosopher Epictetus once said: "Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen." This tells us in order to create something great will take time, we cannot keep expecting AI to do the great work for us. Besides, what lives in one's mind is probably better than anything AI can do.
By Ada Zuba5 months ago in Motivation
