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Most people get their superpower backwards.
∙“What am I good at?”
∙“What’s my passion?”
∙“What makes me special?”
Me. Me. Me.
Your passion is about you.
(No one cares.)
Your Category Superpower is about the difference you make.
For others.
That matters when you’ve spent 30 years building a career. And AI has you wondering:
“Does anybody still need what I know?”
Look at what you have helped others accomplish.
∙What changed because you were involved?
∙What problem did you see that others missed?
∙What extraordinary outcome have you produced repeatedly?
That’s evidence of your superpower.
Your judgment. Your distinct point of view. Your ability to solve a problem that matters to someone.
Now ask what AI makes possible.
∙Could you deliver that outcome to more people?
∙Solve a problem you previously needed a team to tackle?
∙Build a business around expertise buried inside your job?
From selling your time to selling the outcomes you create.
That’s a Creator Capitalist move.
Your customer isn’t buying how special you are.
They’re buying a difference in their life or business.
Your different becomes valuable when it makes a difference.
You discover your superpower by looking at what changes for others when you use it.
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Friday night thoughts about AI, super intelligence, and the internet.
We're building data centers so fast that entire communities are pushing back. The people paying the electricity bills have opinions too.
Funny how tech companies spent decades calling themselves platforms. Now they're in the business of power, land, and infrastructure.
I think AI will be one of the biggest technological shifts of our lifetime. I also think a staggering amount of money being invested right now will never earn a decent return.
The decisions being made by a few companies are going to affect billions of people. Most of those people have no say in any of it.
The internet has spent years rewarding whatever spreads fastest. Now we're feeding all that information into machines that give us remarkably confident answers.
I've been thinking a lot about what happens when nobody knows what to believe anymore.
I keep coming back to privacy too. There's a huge opportunity to make AI genuinely personal without requiring people to hand over their entire digital lives.
And then there's originality.
Look around. So much of what we see, read, and watch already feels the same. We're about to make an extraordinary amount more of it.
The industrialization of mediocrity might be one of AI's most underappreciated consequences.
I wonder what happens to our own taste and judgment when machines start making so many of the little choices for us.
Maybe having your own perspective becomes one of the most valuable things in the world.
I build with AI every day. I love what it lets me do. I'm probably more optimistic about it than most people.
Still, these are the things on my mind tonight.