Michaela Kerem

“Our data is showing that 70 percent of the skills in the average job will have changed by 2030,” said Aneesh Raman, LinkedIn’s chief economic opportunity officer.

If the task requires substantial time and effort, it is best to break it down into a series of small steps so that each one can be completed in fifteen minutes or less. Now write down in the next column how difficult you predict each step of the task will be, using a 0-to-100 percent scale. If you imagine the task will be easy, you can write down a... See more

Become OK with a lot of things going wrong. You can be wrong half the time and still make a fortune, because a small minority of things account for the majority of outcomes. No matter what you’re doing with your money you should be comfortable with a lot of stuff not working. That’s just how the world is. So you should always measure how you’ve don... See more

When you notice anxiety, pause and ask yourself: are you anxious about what is true, what is meaningful, or what is useful?

For years, we feared automation would replace humans. But as AI reshapes the economy, it’s becoming clear that far from replacing human ingenuity, AI has amplified it. The critical dividing line in our economy is no longer simply education or specialization, but rather agency itself: the raw determination to make things happen without waiting for p... See more

When we’re having a disagreement with someone, it’s really useful to pay attention to which of the three realms we’re experiencing. The three realms are: anxiety about what is true (the head realm of information and science), anxiety about what is meaningful (the heart realm of preferences and values), and anxiety about what is useful (the hands re... See more

There are a few characteristics of the markets/sectors where AI rollups will be particularly effective. In no particular order, these markets should be: (1) highly fragmented; (2) large and growing; (3) lacking technology expertise and reluctant to buy software; (4) high revenue, low margin; (5) driven by human knowledge work (human knowledge labor... See more

The challenge for us is that no amount of studying or open-mindedness can genuinely recreate the power of fear and uncertainty.

mere-exposure effect (we tend to prefer things that we have become familiar with)