It's going to be a really interesting future watching how AI changes the way we think, mostly by making convenience so accessible that it quietly takes away the difficulty of actually putting in thought and effort. The easier something becomes to hand off, the less practice we get doing it ourselves, so I wonder if thinking ends up being the first skill that erodes from convenience rather than disuse.
This challenge is so palpable rn. Also, it's one thing to have to deal with this shifting ground when you're employed but a WHOLE other thing when you're self-employed. Nobody's spending even $1.10 per $100 on training you and you're doing it all in your own time and you have very few guardrails to make sure you get some decent outcomes of it. The stakes certainly feel high (even tho the learning can become somewhat addictive itself).
The part about competence moving from “I know how to do this” to “I know how to learn the next version” is real.
I've seen this in software teams where people get good at a role and then the tools and expectations change again. We call it reskilling, but after a while I wonder what happens to the feeling of actually being good at your job.
We’re creating a world where many people will feel less competent more of the time. Once competence shifts from “I know this” to “I’m good at learning the next thing,” we end up on a kind of competence treadmill, always moving, never quite arriving.
It's going to be a really interesting future watching how AI changes the way we think, mostly by making convenience so accessible that it quietly takes away the difficulty of actually putting in thought and effort. The easier something becomes to hand off, the less practice we get doing it ourselves, so I wonder if thinking ends up being the first skill that erodes from convenience rather than disuse.
This challenge is so palpable rn. Also, it's one thing to have to deal with this shifting ground when you're employed but a WHOLE other thing when you're self-employed. Nobody's spending even $1.10 per $100 on training you and you're doing it all in your own time and you have very few guardrails to make sure you get some decent outcomes of it. The stakes certainly feel high (even tho the learning can become somewhat addictive itself).
Such a good point, Andres.
The part about competence moving from “I know how to do this” to “I know how to learn the next version” is real.
I've seen this in software teams where people get good at a role and then the tools and expectations change again. We call it reskilling, but after a while I wonder what happens to the feeling of actually being good at your job.
This exactly
We’re creating a world where many people will feel less competent more of the time. Once competence shifts from “I know this” to “I’m good at learning the next thing,” we end up on a kind of competence treadmill, always moving, never quite arriving.