Meta launched Muse this week, an assistant that doesn’t just advise you but acts for you — booking, buying, sending, handling the business of living on its own. In this segment we look forward, calmly, at the line between having help and being replaced in your own life: why, for all of human history, the deciding of a thing and the doing of it have been connected, why the small frictions of living are also the small moments of agency and presence, and why the real question isn’t whether to use these agents, but whether we stay awake enough to keep — on purpose — the parts of our own lives we actually want to touch with our own hands.
