
Gradually, then Suddenly: Upon the Threshold

The speed at which things are adapting is accelerating. Everyone can feel this, but not everyone is able to put their finger on HOW they should respond to it. The pitfall I see is that many old-school thinkers are ignoring the speed at which things are changing with the excuse of “this time isn’t different.” On the other side of the spectrum, you h
... See moreCapital Flows • AI & the New Age of Learning
If your work is in any sense “creative” – if you’re a writer, designer, therapist, artist, editor, coach, architect, podcaster, or much else besides – there’s a good chance you’ve spent recent months worried that AI might be coming for your job. (You might be excited by AI’s potential, too; the two aren’t mutually exclusive.) But something about th
... See moreAs Ethan said a year ago, it takes 10 hours of monkeying around to get into it. But I think a good AI executive training program can dramatically shorten the window, assuming a growth mindset on the exec’s part. I ran into a retired architect the other day who was bemoaning wanting to work in retirement but he had never learned CAD-CAM! Now he’s tw... See more