Nic Silver
@nicsilver
Nic Silver
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
Agency Is Eating the World
AI and Entrepreneurship
AI has eroded the value of specialization because, for many tasks, achieving the outcome of several years of experience now takes a $20 ChatGPT subscription.
If a decade ago it took me nine months to gain enough experience to ship a single prototype, now it takes just one week to build a state-of-the-art platform ready to be shipped — a project once... See more
If a decade ago it took me nine months to gain enough experience to ship a single prototype, now it takes just one week to build a state-of-the-art platform ready to be shipped — a project once... See more
Agency Is Eating the World
Entrepreneurship and AI
There’s a lot of speculation and rhetoric these days about whether AI democratizes creativity or advances it. However, it is abundantly clear to me that both are true.
On the one hand, humanity’s creative confidence for humanity has gone up as people of all ages are able to prompt whatever is in their mind’s eye and express themselves visually. We’... See more
On the one hand, humanity’s creative confidence for humanity has gone up as people of all ages are able to prompt whatever is in their mind’s eye and express themselves visually. We’... See more
Scott Belsky • The Era of Abstraction & New Creative Tensions
Like the artist, the business professional or founder must develop the capacity to see what others have missed—to recognize patterns and possibilities invisible to those trapped in conventional thinking. While we praise businesses as competitive when they capture market share, we might better describe them as artful when they've mastered value crea
... See morereadwise.io • Value Creation Is Art, Not War- Why Leaders Should Rethink Their Business Metaphors to Increase Upside
What we have long called the creator economy is evolving to become more of a “meaning economy,” where the creators and brands and experiences that engage us will do so through story, craft, and a deeper and more sophisticated sense of meaning. The creator economy was ultimately driven by content (enabled by ubiquitous access to content creation and... See more
Artistry and
The only enduring value is in identifying hard problems that face customers you understand, solving that problem better than anyone else, and staying obsessed with serving that customer forever.
Andrew Rea • What I'm building next
Value creation is rooted in solving problems and addressing human needs.
Creator Economy and
While large language models have some positive uses for creative writing, such as generating small projects or parts of larger projects, they are not a replacement for human creativity and require careful prompt engineering to produce useful output.
“Data only tells you what was.
It doesn’t account for what could be.”