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Knowledge Work Is Dying—Here’s What Comes Next
And when knowledge is no longer scarce, what remains valuable? Wisdom. You can get answers from AI, but how you use those answers takes wisdom.
Joe Hudson • Knowledge Work Is Dying—Here’s What Comes Next
Facts, skills, and expertise will be increasingly commoditized, and even the smartest of us will be replaceable .
It’s easy to overlook how radical that is. Our entire society is built around knowledge as a scarce, precious resource.
It’s easy to overlook how radical that is. Our entire society is built around knowledge as a scarce, precious resource.
Joe Hudson • Knowledge Work Is Dying—Here’s What Comes Next
Knowledge Work Is Dying—Here’s What Comes Next
Joe Hudson • Knowledge Work Is Dying—Here’s What Comes Next
Whether repressed or managed, avoided emotions don’t go away. They return in a pattern I call the “golden algorithm.” It goes like this:
For example: I don’t want to feel like a failure —> I play it safe... See more
- Name an unwanted emotion in your life.
- List the ways you try to avoid it.
- Notice that every way you try to avoid it, you actually create it.
For example: I don’t want to feel like a failure —> I play it safe... See more
Joe Hudson • Knowledge Work Is Dying—Here’s What Comes Next
Wisdom is how to live. It is the residue of mistakes, metabolized by time and reflection. It can’t be rushed, and it can’t be copy-pasted. It is an embodied—as in felt in the body—experience, guidance from the inside.
Joe Hudson • Knowledge Work Is Dying—Here’s What Comes Next
The Harvard Study of Adult Development—the world’s longest-running longitudinal study, tracking people since 1938—found that the single strongest predictor of both happiness and physical health in old age was the warmth of participants’ close relationships. In fact, quality of connection at age 50 predicted health at 80 better than cholesterol leve
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Indeed, changing how you relate to yourself is one of the foundations of my work with clients. Here’s an experiment you can try: For 20 minutes every day for a week, listen to the critical voice in your head*.
- Every time it is mean, say “ouch.”
- Every time it tells you that you messed up, say “ouch.”
- Every time it tries to make you feel small, say “ouc
Joe Hudson • Knowledge Work Is Dying—Here’s What Comes Next
In the knowledge-work era, we often assumed the person with the best dashboard or most comprehensive analytics was the smartest one in the room.
But we are drowning in dashboards and real-time feeds, and evidence suggests that piling on more data often hurts decision quality:
Joe Hudson • Knowledge Work Is Dying—Here’s What Comes Next
Psychologists echo this: Chronic procrastination shows up less as a time-management failure and more as an emotional struggle—we delay to dodge anxiety, self-doubt, or fear of failure.
I’ve seen this firsthand: Some of the most brilliant founders, executives, and creative professionals I’ve worked with weren’t stuck because they lacked intelligence
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