AI's disruption of jobs has begun. It will accelerate. AI and robots will serve a long-tail of unmet needs, and manager of AI agents will be the remaining human job.
That's a great article, and you make a great point: "We need to push AI further .. not to replace us, but to deepen our understanding of who we are and where we thrive."
Dan Koe has a similar hopeful answer for people: to become AI first and to use AI to embrace a life of "mastery and meaning." His 30 minute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFgjDSySYo8
It sounds great, and this is way it ought to be. My own pre-career advice is to follow the pattern uncovered in "Good To Great" They speak of the "Passion-Skill-Value" zone - in which you combine passion (and mission) with skill (innate and developed) and value (doing something the world values).
"Where do you thrive?" is identifying those zones of mastery, skill and passion that we each have.
What sticks in my craw with such advice is that it leaves out Value. In this world where AI is making many intellectual tasks much cheaper, it is the VALUE of various professional tasks and products that will be greatly impacted by vastly cheaper, faster AI.
My advice to "leverage AI and become its master" is unsatisfying, because even though AI in the workplace is inevitable, it only answers the "value" part of the triad, and not skill nor passion. AI is becoming as pervasive as email, but what if someone's passion points away from AI wrangler roles? It may be that the future career path is to embrace a 'craftsman' mindset, focus on mastery and meaning, and let the chips fall where it may regarding the value the world sees. There will always be market demand for excellence, whatever the field.
True. I’m also curious to think if this is a time where we should be talking more about talent placement than directing people toward one capability (agentic ai) … I am curious to hear what you think about this https://open.substack.com/pub/thehumanplaybook/p/reimagining-the-future-of-work?r=1fr1e&utm_medium=ios
That's a great article, and you make a great point: "We need to push AI further .. not to replace us, but to deepen our understanding of who we are and where we thrive."
Dan Koe has a similar hopeful answer for people: to become AI first and to use AI to embrace a life of "mastery and meaning." His 30 minute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFgjDSySYo8
It sounds great, and this is way it ought to be. My own pre-career advice is to follow the pattern uncovered in "Good To Great" They speak of the "Passion-Skill-Value" zone - in which you combine passion (and mission) with skill (innate and developed) and value (doing something the world values).
"Where do you thrive?" is identifying those zones of mastery, skill and passion that we each have.
What sticks in my craw with such advice is that it leaves out Value. In this world where AI is making many intellectual tasks much cheaper, it is the VALUE of various professional tasks and products that will be greatly impacted by vastly cheaper, faster AI.
My advice to "leverage AI and become its master" is unsatisfying, because even though AI in the workplace is inevitable, it only answers the "value" part of the triad, and not skill nor passion. AI is becoming as pervasive as email, but what if someone's passion points away from AI wrangler roles? It may be that the future career path is to embrace a 'craftsman' mindset, focus on mastery and meaning, and let the chips fall where it may regarding the value the world sees. There will always be market demand for excellence, whatever the field.