ReadMutiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 34: The Journey So Far.

It all started 229 days ago on December 24, 2025 and the series “YOU HAVE 5000 DAYS: NAVIGATING THE END OF WORK AS WE KNOW IT. PART 1” was released. Today is August 9, 2026. And this ongoing series that began as an attempt to name and navigate the strange passage we are all living through, has been a surprising success. You and I have been tracing what I have called the Abundance Interregnum, that roughly thirteen and a half year corridor between the collapsing logic of work to survive and the still forming logic of voluntary creation in plenty. Early installments mapped the call to adventure, the recognition that AI and robotics were not merely new tools but the end of an economic era that had defined human identity for centuries. Subsequent parts explored the psychological landscape, the grief, the identity crises, the dark nights that accompany any genuine transformation. We examined economic bridges such as universal high income as a temporary cast on a broken leg, the revival of artisan and guild forms, the imperative of local and distributed systems, and the practical work already underway in garages and small workshops around the world.Read more at: ReadMultiplex.comSupport this work by buying us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/brianroemmele