People are becoming soft as fuck at an exponential and alarming rate.

Not just physically, but mentally, emotionally, socially. I'm calling it the Crutch Chasm. The growing gap between what we can actually do ourselves and what we need external systems to do for us.

Think about it.

Meeting people - Outsourced to dating apps.

Remembering things - Outsourced to smartphones.

Finding our way - Outsourced to GPS.

Thinking clearly - Outsourced to Google.

Basic decisions - Outsourced to AI.

Entertainment - Outsourced to algorithms.

Every capability you don't use eventually disappears. This is just basic biology. Muscles atrophy. Connections weaken. Systems shut down.

I look at modern relationships and it's fucking sad. People swiping through humans like menu items, following texting strategies like they're coding, and bailing at the first sign of actual work. Everything feels disposable because it is disposable. We've created systems that let us avoid all the necessary friction that builds relationship muscles.

Seriously, why do you think relationships from previous generations seem so much stronger? It's not because they were better people. It's because they had no choice but to develop social skills. To learn to handle tension. To communicate face to face. To work through problems instead of just replacing the person.

There were no crutches. You either developed the capability or you failed.

This pattern is everywhere now. The skills that defined humanity for thousands of years are vanishing in a single generation. And with them goes our resilience, our adaptability, our independence.

The human operating system wasn't designed for frictionless existence. It was designed to encounter resistance and adapt. To solve problems and grow stronger through the solving.

When we systematically remove that resistance, we don't just change our environment. We change who we are at a fundamental level.

This mass atrophy creates the biggest opportunity I've seen in my lifetime. The bar for being exceptional has never been lower. Most people are so dependent on these systems that basic human capability now looks like a superpower.

If you can walk up to a stranger and start a genuinely interesting conversation, you're already in the top 1%. If you can build a relationship based on authentic connection rather than convenience, you stand apart. If you can create original work without algorithmic assistance, you're increasingly rare.

We've created a world where simply maintaining what humans have always done makes you exceptional.

I'm not saying reject technology. That's neither possible nor smart. I'm saying understand the difference between tools that amplify your capability and those that replace it.

Ask yourself with every convenience you adopt: Am I expanding what I can do or amputating what I could do myself?

The most valuable humans in the coming decade won't be those with access to the fanciest tech. Everyone will have that. They'll be those who've kept their essential capabilities while strategically using tools for advantage rather than replacement.

In a world where everyone outsources their thinking, original thought becomes revolutionary. In a marketplace flooded with AI generated content, authentic human creativity becomes precious. In a culture addicted to convenience, the ability to embrace necessary discomfort becomes rare.

The Crutch Chasm is getting wider every day. Most people are falling in, trading capability for convenience, strength for support, mastery for shortcuts.

The question isn't whether you use these tools. It's whether they're making you stronger or weaker. More capable or less. More human or less.

Choose wisely. What you outsource today, you won't be able to do tomorrow.