How I'm thinking about the next few years

I've been thinking (and worrying) a lot about how AI will affect things, and I've drawn some conclusions that will drive my own career and thought process over the next few years and I thought I'd share.

Humans have always been orchestrators, of knowledge and ideas and tools, we learn a bunch of things and interconnect them to do new or more powerful or valuable things.

Technology has always advanced and the new abstractions usually just make us more powerful *as orchestrators* (important).

I've realized is that the orchestration layer has changed a lot with AI. You obviously can't just be a C++ or TypeScript orchestrator (coder) anymore and expect to be around a few years from now, you need to move up and learn more / new skills that can be composed, and if you do you can be even more valuable than you were in the past.

And orchestration has a lot to do with creating.

Creativity isn't about conjuring something from nothing, it's more like being a receiver or antenna, picking up on what's already floating in the collective atmosphere and filtering it through your unique perspective (maybe this is essentially refining taste?).

The way to increase inputs to our brain is to learn more, to widen the breadth of what we're learning, and importantly to do it consistently.

People talk about taste and agency, but I think the people who will win over the next few decades will simply be the most avid learners.

This is already true but it feels like it's just speeding up.

I'll end with one of my favorite quotes that seems more and more true every day: "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."