I wonder...

I am sipping coffee at Starbucks, trying to work, and ended up 'wondering' - May be it's not AI that's making us useless... May be it's LinkedIn. It has conditioned a whole bunch of people to start 'wondering' after every little thing they do, or don't, or just go through, or don't... An hour of wondering per minute of activity - that might as well be wondering - then an hour trying to post on LinkedIn what we wondered, often by getting AI to write about it beautifully... Then a few hours checking likes and comments, wondering about those. We even wonder about wondering. Many are wondering - even worrying - whether they are wondering enough. People have started wondering together. There are even courses to help you do high quality wondering. A cursory scan of LinkedIn will tell you that we are certainly getting better at it. AI is playing a huge role in wondering lifecycle management (WLM). It's even executing some of the steps in the workflow. Can it do the whole of it? I wonder. Soon, perhaps. But we should make sure we are always wondering 10 times better than AI. A lot of us post our pics to go along with our wondering narrative. AI can't. But then it can generate a prettier human picture than any of our wondering faces - I wonder whether that would matter. I wonder whether hallucinating by AI qualifies as wondering of some sort. Or is it just a couple of steps behind wondering? Should we worry about it, I wonder. We have to outwonder AI, as wondering is all we got left. I wonder whether we can do it. We have to. It's our 'wonderful' world afterall! But then, I wonder...

Originally posted on LinkedIn on 12 May 2026