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Doina Leovchin's avatar

Colette and Suma, thank you for putting these feelings into words.

How easy it is to let work take over our identity, especially in tech, where everything moves so fast.

I love how you, Suma, remind us that we’re more than our job titles, that the messy, creative, curious parts of ourselves matter just as much. It’s so important to hold on to those things, even when work feels all-consuming.

Wishing you space to breathe and keep being your whole, beautiful self.

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Colette Molteni's avatar

Thank you Doina! Everything does move fast in tech, and we have to take a breather.

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Suma Movva's avatar

Thank you Doina - I love the reminder at the end where you tell us to keep being our whole, beautiful selves. Couldn’t be more true.

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Roi Ezra's avatar

Thank you so much for writing it.

I feel exactly the same, we must return to ourselves first to become better at everything, not only work.

I wrote just about how I dream this can be achieved leveraging AI and how tech companies work in my blog post: AI for Humanity - One Day, Every Two Weeks, For What Matters

https://aihumanity.substack.com/p/hi-for-humanity-one-day-every-two?r=supoi

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Suma Movva's avatar

Such a good read and exactly the kind of AI messaging I want to propagate too. You got a new subscriber, Roy :) excited to build an AI for Humanity community together

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Roi Ezra's avatar

Thank you Suma, so much fun finding more people who see AI this way on this platform. I also subscribed and lets build the AI for Humanity community together indeed! This is why I started writing

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Jymit Khondhu's avatar

I love this. I love being reminded that my identity is not my job title and I am a human (not an AI chatbot). A lot of this is that self validation, and social conditioning.

I am still working out how to detach from that conditioning and have a framework to be able to answer the question of: who are you?

I feel the answer continually changes from role to a human centred one as life goes on.

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Suma Movva's avatar

Thanks for reading, Jymit. You’re spot on about us being conditioned to attach identity to a job title. But the fact that you’re even questioning it, means that you’re already reflecting into the deeper more complex world of who you are.

Hope we find our purest human journeys together.

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Ame_data analyst's avatar

As I read this, I remember my article, the human side to data. You can't really "really" seperate professionalism, and letting-your-hair-down, because like you said, you're your most authentic when you're a full person.

I may be in a different mindset when I'm coding and when I'm taking a walk, but I am still the same person and how I manage all of that, AI and all, is who I really am. Beyond 9-5 or freelancing (in my case).

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Colette Molteni's avatar

Yes, exactly, we are the same people, even if our mindset shifts with our external activities.

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Suma Movva's avatar

So true, Ame. Even attempting to separate the parts of us that make us whole is such an unnecessary and futile exercise.

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Saurabh's avatar

More than job title... A good read

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Suma Movva's avatar

Thank you for reading, Saurabh!

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