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What remains for humans is complexity, nuance, relationships, art, imagination and eccentric, counterintuitive thinking. We excel at surprise and being unpredictable. This is the work that will remain uniquely human and beautiful.

A hallmark of true expertise and insight is making a complex subject understandable. A hallmark of mediocrity and bad strategy is unnecessary complexity—a flurry of fluff masking an absence of substance

This shift has ushered in what Every’s Dan Shipper calls an allocation economy, where the value of work increasingly hinges not on traditional labor but on how we allocate scarce resources—time, attention, and focus. In this new paradigm, the question becomes less about what AI can do and more about how we choose to use it, what we allow it to... See more

all forecast that the workers most likely to see “exposure” to generative AI are more educated and in higher-paid fields such as computer science, business and finance, legal, and management.

Smart people are uniquely vulnerable to mistaking complexity for insight.

An executive writes a ten-page memo that could be one. An engineer builds an intricate system when a simple one would perform better at half the cost. The consultant mesmerizes clients with frameworks that conceal rather than reveal. We attach prestige to what mystifies us.... See more