I’ve been reluctant to try ChatGPT. Today I got over that reluctance. Now I understand why I was reluctant.

The value of 90% of my skills just dropped to $0. The leverage for the remaining 10% went up 1000x. I need to recalibrate.

Productivity, AI and pushback

Typesetters did not like the laser printer. Wedding photographers still hate the iphone. And some musicians are outraged that AI is now making mediocre pop music.

One group of esteemed authors is demanding that book publishers refuse to use AI in designing book covers, recording audiobooks or a range of other tasks.

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1 - WILL AI TAKE MY JOB?

Yes. Probably. Not all at once. Not dramatically. But the herd will thin. It's the nature of what's coming and the market reality.

Al is already commoditising the cognitive tasks that justified many strategic roles: pattern recognition, trend synthesis, competitive analysis, framework completion, even insight generation.

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Archers didn’t lose to other archers using the latest technology; they lost to an entirely different model of warfare.

Understanding the constraint that makes you valuable is key. In the case of typists, it was the high cost of document editing. When that constraint is removed, so is your value.