Humans have encountered paradox—to give ourselves a Merriam-Webster baseline, something that has “seemingly contradictory qualities or phases”—since well before they knew what to name it. But technological developments, specifically within artificial intelligence, have brought new paradoxes upon us and given old paradoxes new forms. Among the strategies for navigating this novel environment, some approaches are able to separate themselves from the noise by taking today’s inherent paradoxes into account. By acknowledging and even embodying the contradictions of the professional environment in tech, these approaches can help us to succeed within the workplace and develop the tools to properly contextualize it within our own worldview. Any individual learning strategy for adapting to technology’s uncertain evolution should build upon the uniquely human skills needed to cope with paradox.
