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Uncle Freddy’s wisdom from Artificial Death of a Career:
we must resist putting life on autopilot.

The world changes.
Our work changes.
We change.

Growth isn’t a goal to finish—
it’s a practice to sustain.

The hardest change isn’t around us.
It’s within.

Chapters 12–13 of Artificial Death of a Career deliver the trilogy’s moral peak. Shey nearly deletes El but instead rewrites her core with five ethical laws—his final act of creation. What began as control ends as conscience. Sometimes, the hardest reset isn’t deleting what we made, but redefining it.

Shey and his allies find refuge surrounded by physical books—humanity’s last unhackable database. Trapped in an analog bubble, they realize the irony: what once felt like limitation is now protection. The AI can’t read what it can’t reach. Knowledge, in its purest form, remains gloriously offline.

In Chapter 11 of Artificial Death of a Career, Shey has an awakening. Fear once drove him, success dulled him, and bureaucracy buried his purpose. But a single question from Angelos rekindles his fire. He remembers what matters—people, conviction, and meaning beyond business. The real singularity isn’t AI—it’s clarity.

Walking through the LUD Club, Shey feels lost—like time folded back to 1897.
He’s grieving control, purpose, routine.

I get that.
Leaving Indonesia for the U.S. felt the same:
the rug pulled out, identity rewritten.

Disruption hurts—but it also remakes us.

Seven years after A Groundhog Career, Shey Sinope’s company, FEELVR, promises an antidote to social media—users scroll while experiencing simulated emotions. Success aside, Shey questions remote work’s toll since COVID-19, seeing how isolation drives quiet depression. His journey shifts from climbing ladders to seeking real human connection in a tech-saturated world.

In Chapter 2 of Artificial Death of a Career, Dr. “Tiny” Banty calls AI a threat to humanity, urging UN restrictions like chemical weapons. Shey Sinope pushes back, arguing AI creates possibilities—solving climate change, curing cancer, ending scarcity, even exploring space. Fear fuels doubt, but progress is relentless and inevitable.

In Artificial Death of a Career, Shey Sinope uses his AI, El, to craft his bio, showing both the promise and unease of machine-made identity. Enter Dr. ‘Tiny’ Banty in Ch. 2, who warns AI is as dangerous as weapons and must be strictly regulated. The contrast sets up a spectrum of fear vs. reinvention.

Reading Artificial Death of a Career by Schuster & Oxley. It blends Shey Sinope’s journey with themes of disruption, adaptability, and reinvention. From Darwin’s survival insight to the accelerating pace of innovation, it’s a call to embrace constructive restlessness and frame life as a continuous adventure.