Pressure is a Privilege.
And if you’re feeling any pressure or weight of expectation, you are breathing rare air, that very few of us get to live inside”.
Unbelievable piece of poetry by Tom Hiddleston
This isn’t just about saving time or money.
This is about changing who gets to build.
If you can think it, you can start building it.
We’re in that era where execution is no longer the biggest barrier and that’s powerful.
It’s funny how I paid a web developer to revamp my website and the first thing I got back was a long list of things I needed to provide before they could even start.
Basically a full requirements catalogue
Life got busy, and I didn’t get around to pulling everything together.
But what really stood out to me is this:
AI didn’t replace the developer, it worked with me in real time, as I was thinking, I was creating and iterating.
It honestly felt like having a developer sitting next to me saying, “go on, try that idea… yeah, that works.”
Just coming back to my earlier point about AI.
Jack Dorsey has laid off 40% of Block’s workforce.
No lengthy email.
No all-hands meeting.
Just a tweet.
And before the day was out, 4,000 careers had changed course.
Upskill and build influence.
Lean into the parts of the job that require human thinking, making decisions, solving messy problems, understanding people and leading when things are uncertain.
The future doesn’t just land on us.
We get ready for it.
At a conference I attended recently, in the middle of all the excitement about AI and other emerging technologies, someone asked a single question that cut through the noise.
“How do we make sure AI doesn’t take our jobs?”
And then came the deafening silence.