January 25, 2024 - With the turn of the year, I've been thinking a lot about how to do things differently. 2023 was a hard year in a string of hard years. There''s "thrive" years and "survive" years and it's been a straight streak of survive years for everyone since 2020. It's no wonder that burnout is rampant and we're all so damn...tired. And if dealing with a pandemic changing so much about our working worlds wasn't enough, then in comes AI Art, tempting everyone with "easier" and "faster" and "cheaper". In the race where we're all being driven to do more work faster for less money, the robots will always win. No actual humans can keep up. But that's a race, I realize, that only comes with a booby prize of burnout at the end. I've been reading…