When knowledge becomes abundant, value migrates to the functions that exist upstream and downstream from it: framing the inquiry and acting on the output.

Good questions compress the search space, increasing the density of viable opportunities per unit of effort. They reduce opportunity cost: the better the initial inquiry, the lower the probability of burning resources chasing irrelevant possibilities.

Good questions are compression devices which shrink search space. Bad questions are expansion devic... See more

Elite curation - which really commands economic value - is less about matching preferences and more about shaping them in your favour.

That comes only through narrative control. You choose what to elevate and what to exclude and you then get to tell the story of why that curation matters

Judgment is the ability to make the final call, weighing all pros and cons, and effectively bearing all risk associated with the outcome. Judgment is not simply intuition, it’s the ability to make choices knowing you’re also on the hook for the consequences.

Judgment rises in importance as environments are less stable and more ambiguous. Judgment b... See more

Context is more about interpretation. The ability to create meaning in a certain context by understanding the context and applying the right interpretation to it.

When AI can generate infinite outputs, the scarce advantage shifts to whoever can pose the constraint that focuses efforts towards generating the right outputs.

In an attention-scarce and knowledge-abundant economy, we’re increasingly buying signals, not inherent expertise.

Our humanity has intrinsic value, yes.

But only when it’s scarce and relevant does it have economic value.

Yes, all your other ‘human’ skills will continue to matter. But they will command economic value only when tightly bundled with curiosity, curation, and judgment

This is curation - where taste and context exert narrative control