Jon Young

I help experts stop losing to lesser competitors.

[Jon Young @8020jonathan]

The AI debate keeps missing the point.

Question isn't whether AI can write.

It's whether we know what we're trying to say in the first place.

Most of us don't. That was true before ChatGPT existed.

We treat writing like output. Fill the feed. Post because it's Tuesday.

AI just makes that worse faster.

But the ones who treat AI like a thinking partner, not a content machine, end up writing better than before.

Because they're finally asking: "What am I actually trying to say?"

You can't prompt your way to meaning if you don't know what the meaning is yet.

That's the filter we lost.

[Jon Young @8020jonathan]

Microsoft found hidden AI attacks in URLs.

You click "summarize." AI reads invisible instructions that change its behavior.

Every security framework assumes humans are the vulnerability. That assumption just expired.

[Jon Young @8020jonathan]

Bain's research: human-centric AI delivers 2.3x returns.

Technical implementation is easy.

Getting people to trust it and use it? That's where programs die.

[Jon Young @8020jonathan]

IBM's tripling junior hiring this year.

Not for grunt work. For AI experimentation.

They're betting people without legacy thinking move faster with new tools.

[Jon Young @8020jonathan]

Perplexity just quit advertising.

"Ads erode trust when AI is the answer."

The business model that built the internet might not survive AI search.

[Jon Young @8020jonathan]

Harvard just confirmed it.

AI doesn't reduce work. It intensifies it.

Faster tools don't mean less work. They mean higher expectations.

[Jon Young @8020jonathan]

CEOs promise AI will give you three-day weeks.

Productivity's up 40% since 2000. Wages haven't moved.

Shorter weeks will come with shorter pay. That's what the data shows every time.

[Jon Young @8020jonathan]

Big Tech: £650 billion on AI this year.

Your competitor: still in vendor demos.

That's not a technology gap. That's a decision gap.

[Jon Young @8020jonathan]

A Substack post moved £60 billion this week.

Not policy. Not earnings. Fiction about AI.

Markets don't price in reality anymore. They price in fear of what someone imagined.

[Jon Young @8020jonathan]

Most experts think content creates clients.

It doesn't.

Content creates awareness.

Partnerships create warm introductions. Search creates intent. Referrals create sales.

Your competitor knows the difference.

Do you?

[Jon Young @8020jonathan]

@scalegoatleo Thanks and will do.

[Jon Young @8020jonathan]

Most experts think the work speaks for itself.

It can't.

Nobody hears it until AFTER they hire you.

Your competitor figured out they needed to speak BEFORE the sale.

That's the entire difference.

[Jon Young @8020jonathan]

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[Jon Young @8020jonathan]

I'm 57.

Three kids, 19-26. Living their lives.

I worked 70-hour weeks thinking I was providing.

They visit rarely. They love me.

But I never built the relationship.

I gave them everything except me.

Don't make my mistake.

[Jon Young @8020jonathan]

@godofprompt VEO

[Jon Young @8020jonathan]

Imagine in words. AI is freeing creators.

[Dave Clark @Diesol]

My Very First Sora 2 Short Film 🤯

100% Text to Video

This is FROSTBITE

Created with Sora 2 Pro

Edited and Directed by Me

[Jon Young @8020jonathan]

@Diesol @Scobleizer Looks like creators are no longer hampered by technology. Looking forward to your next installment.

[Jon Young @8020jonathan]

@Nicolascole77 BOOKS

[Jon Young @8020jonathan]

For anyone on the fence about AI and robotics replacing human work anytime soon...think again.