Hey
I woke up with a strange heaviness today. Not due to my Saturday overnight party and Booz but a constant thought from last many days and in fact from many months.
Not anxiety. Not fear.
Just a quiet thought that kept looping in my head:
"A lot of people are preparing for a future that won't exist."
I didn't read it in a report. I did not hear it on a podcast.
It hit me while doing absolutely nothing.
We're still talking about careers, skills, and "safe paths" like the world moves slowly. Like AI is just another tool we'll casually adapt to.
But this shift feels different. AGI isn't loud. It's not dramatic. It doesn't announce layoffs.
It simply shows up one day and makes certain work… unnecessary. Not because people are bad at their jobs. But because the jobs themselves were built for a slower world.
The kind where information was hard to get. Where decisions took weeks. Where "knowing things" was valuable.
That world is gone. What bothers me most is not that some roles will disappear. That's always happened.
What bothers me is how many smart people are still optimizing for _being useful inside a system_ instead of _owning leverage outside it_.
And no one tells them this directly. If your value comes from following instructions, filling templates, or moving information from one place to another — you are not failing.
You're just standing in the blast radius of progress.
The good news?
You don't need to outrun AGI. You just need to stop standing where it's aimed.
The people who'll be fine aren't the ones with the most certificates or the longest resumes.
They are the ones who:
AGI does not replace judgment. It doesn't replace taste. It doesn't replace trust.
It replaces _being replaceable._
So if this email leaves you a little uncomfortable — that's okay. It should. Sit with one honest question today:
"If my current role vanished tomorrow, what would I still own?"
Your thinking. Your distribution. Your ability to create value.
That's where the work is now.
I will share more thoughts on how to build that kind of leverage in the next few emails.
For now, don't panic.
Just don't sleepwalk either.
Meanwhile, while AGI reshapes who gets replaced a few companies are quietly building the backbone of all of it.
Chips. Infrastructure. Automation. The stuff that runs underneath every AI tool you use.
Every AI tool you see depends on a deeper system. Powerful chips, massive data infrastructure, automation systems, and companies that can actually deploy AI at scale. That is where things start to get interesting.
One company is producing accelerator chips at ~$40,000 each and has built a full-stack ecosystem so sticky that switching is nearly impossible for their customers.
Another is leading in warehouse automation with a backlog of over $23 billion in committed business and they are letting mid-sized operators lease robots instead of buying upfront. That changes the entire adoption curve.
The real winners in any major technological shift are rarely the most visible ones. They are the ones building the foundation that everyone else depends on.
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Talk soon,