The Backwards Hack to Surviving The AI Revolution as an Entrepreneur Isn’t Mastering the New Tech

Making the right kind of forecast means thinking deeply about where people are headed and what emerging beliefs, behaviors, mentalities, value systems, ideals and cultural ideas can be brought to the surface with the right conditions.

Technology creates new opportunities and branches in the human path, but it is only larger ideas and mindsets that d... See more

When technical execution becomes trivially easy, when anyone can spin up a startup, design a fashion line, or produce a film, the scarce resource becomes knowing what's worth doing in the first place. And what’s worth doing is typically deeply subjective.

But as I started reporting more on AI and automation, the message I heard from experts about the modern economy was, essentially, the exact opposite. These experts said that, in a highly automated economy, the most valuable skills and abilities were the ones that could distinguish workers from machines. Rather than treating ourselves as pieces of b... See more

When technical execution becomes trivially easy, when anyone can spin up a startup, design a fashion line, or produce a film, the scarce resource becomes knowing what's worth doing in the first place. And what’s worth doing is typically deeply subjective.

Many have asked me recently, somewhat anxiously, about how I see the future of work unfold. I ... See more

BILLIONS ARE UP FOR GRABS WITH THIS AI WAVE When I was 23, I watched fortunes get minted in the App Store gold rush in Silicon Valley because a handful of founders locked themselves in a room, ignored every shiny distraction, and got absurdly good at one thing...ranking on a