Not long ago, my mother was in a car accident. She spent about ten days in the intensive care unit, and fortunately made it through the worst of it. ICU wards and university hospitals have strict visitation limits, so most of the time I was either sitting in a hallway chair or waiting at a nearby cafe. I could not focus on anything during the day, and I could not sleep at night. It was a hellish stretch of time.

During that time, I stopped consuming AI news. Work nearly stopped as well. New models, benchmarks, and the usual stream of who built what all felt very far away. They had been pushed completely out of my priorities. I found myself asking what I had been living so frantically for in the first place.

Wealth + Health. These two would be enough.

Wealth

Most of what we do is ultimately for Wealth. Thinking about careers, meeting people, meetings, doing business, starting a business, receiving investment, collaborating, and doing sales. It's all about trying to make a living. More precisely, it is about creating the resources and options to live the life I want.

But strangely enough, people most often forget the most important things. Work should originally be a means, but at some point it becomes a purpose. Meetings become a purpose, deadlines become a goal, and busyness itself feels like sincerity. If you are busy following the path of others and building the qualifications required by the market in the name of a career, it is hard to see if you are going where you want to go or if you are just being eaten up by work.

So I don’t want to see Wealth simply as money. It is connected to what choices I can make, how little I can shake in the face of crisis, and what I can do for the people I love. Hospitals show this very realistically. Making treatment decisions, securing time, and tolerating uncertainty require resources. The power to pay hospital bills, the ability to take a break from work, and the option to care for your family. These things were all part of Wealth.

You have to look at things with this frame. Is this really building my wealth? Am I developing leadership in my life in the direction I want? When I ask this question, I choose the work rather than the work dragging me. There are also standards for creating, seizing, and throwing away opportunities.

Health

Going back and forth to the hospital makes another truth impossible to miss: health is a prerequisite for everything.

When she was hovering near death, I found myself thinking that all that mattered was for her to stay alive. In front of that, work, money, career, and future plans all become small. We hear so often that health matters that the phrase can start to sound empty, but when someone close to you is seriously hurt, it suddenly becomes real. When health collapses, many other things lose their meaning in an instant.

And health is not just about the body. This includes sleep, mental stability, relationships, the ability to deal with anxiety, and even being able to get through the day without breaking down. Looking back, there was a time when I often put off these things using work and goals as an excuse. However, it is unsustainable to exchange physical and mental health for money.

If your body and mind cannot withstand it, your concentration, judgment, and relationships will collapse, and you will not be able to build wealth for a long time. In order to reach the me I want, the life I want, and the goal I want, I ultimately felt that these two had to grow together.

A virtuous cycle of Wealth + Health is necessary for personal prosperity. And I think that the more such individuals there are, the healthier and stronger society will be. After experiencing this incident, I began to think more about how to make it possible.

AI is leverage

My thoughts on AI have also changed a bit. Ironically, it was only after I stopped watching AI news that it became clearer how to use AI. For individuals, isn't AI closer to leverage to protect and grow wealth and health rather than a purpose in itself?

For example, I tend to overthink a lot when bad situations arise. It was like that this time too. My thoughts were endless, wondering how my mother's condition would progress, how to handle the accident, how to communicate with the insurance company and the police, and whether I was missing anything. So the over-thinking was delegated to AI.

What I asked AI to do was not especially fancy. I set up a directory structure inside one repository and stored everything we had gathered there, including accident records and updates on her condition. Then I had it map the range of possible scenarios almost like a multiverse simulation, organizing them into best-case, worst-case, and most likely outcomes. For accident handling and insurance processing, it kept sorting out which documents were needed, what should be checked first, and what questions needed to be asked. At times, it felt calmer and more organized than most loss adjusters.

Of course, AI does not replace judgment. Medical decisions were made entirely by doctors and medical staff, and other decisions were made by the family together under the leadership of the father. The final confirmation and judgment had to be done by a human, but AI structured the scattered information and possibilities, and in the process, greatly reduced my family's anxiety.

Anxiety can be caused by a lack of information, but it can also be caused by the number of cases being too many and all the possibilities being played out in one's head. AI took it out and organized it. It showed us what we know, what we don't know, what the possibilities are, and what we need to do now. It was bigger than I thought.

AI is also powerful in terms of wealth. It improves execution, lowers experimentation costs, and allows us to explore more opportunities. I also learned a lesson from a business perspective that wealth is not just about making money, but also about not having to spend money, which reduces greater pain.

In conclusion

After going through this, my priorities in life became a little clearer.

Looking back now, when AI was the center of my life, AI actually amplified my busyness and anxiety. There was pressure to catch up faster, to write more, to experiment more. On the other hand, if the center of your life is Wealth + Health, AI is a very good tool.

For individuals, Wealth+Health is the most realistic foundation to support the life they want, and it is close to a tool to better protect and build this foundation.

In the future, I will continue to interact with AI, learn from it, and create something together. However, rather than chasing the technology itself like I used to, I'm trying to see first what it actually adds to my life. Does it increase my wealth, protect my health, and get me closer to the life I want?

Now I want to use AI as that standard. For me and the precious people around me.

Thank you.