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American living in Eurasia. Write @thejunteau @thegoodsletter. Own a small consulting, advisory, investment business.

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@scratchdotmd Could be

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I’m 38.

I know how to do everything in the financial and corporate sense. Been there, climbed the ladders, built the skills, network, top firms, etc.

I can���t think of anything that’s really an intellectual challenge anymore in that context.

That’s why AI is so much more powerful and life-changing for me than a lot of people I talk to… who claim it’s hype or “dumb.”

I know exactly what needs to be done… and AI will just do it with some light checking from me.

But I’ll also give AI tasks that create dream deliverables… things that I know exactly how to do but would take me and a team literally days or even weeks.

Back on Wall Street or in my corporate days, these “perfect” deliverables would NEVER be created because of the labor-hours required.

Now? Perfect can be designed and explained by me in <10 minutes and then fully executed in another 10 minutes. Then perhaps another 20-30 minutes of massaging or edits.

Weeks of work in an hour.

But it’s *perfect* work.

There might not be an AI bubble. These stocks might just be eating global labor to a degree people simply cannot understand.

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@drjoemoore This is my worry for our kids

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@seyrenna_tech There is always someone in an org that knows what to be done but doesn’t have the time or people around to do it perfectly

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@themgmtconsult They’ll need to be both… probably will be a lot of perfect things that have no use

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@BarbellFi Retire… travel.. read.. write

Life isn’t about work

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The grappling happens in the creative process imagining the deliverable

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@goodhandscap Yes

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@alexklinger I’m not smart enough for that

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@BlackLabelAdvsr I didn’t realize you were yoked.

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@JulianLippa What are your questions?

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Morning thoughts…

A few years ago, I took a corporate job to help with the logistics of moving overseas… it stabilized cash flow during a chaotic period and let me “breathe” a little after leaving Wall Street and working for myself for a couple years. I didn’t shutter my business but I did downshift a bit to focus on both the job and the move.

It was genuinely helpful personally and I think we did some great work… but it was incredibly awkward the entire time.

At no point did I feel comfortable. I didn’t need the job financially. For most, it was their career. For me, it was just something interesting I was doing.

It was like that weird dream where you return to your high school years after you’ve graduated to say hi to your old teachers and walk the old halls. Of course, there is no pressure, none of the rules apply to you, and it’s impossible to manage or discipline you…

…but the deeper feeling is that you just don’t belong there and are probably a distraction to the actual students. It’s cool that you stopped by, but it’s very weird if you came back tomorrow.

That’s how I felt returning to a big corp W2 after first leaving it for Wall Street and then leaving W2 entirely.

I think about how I might at some point in my life join a business again in some more formal way… and how to avoid the above scenario and feelings.

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@SMB_Attorney Are they happy?

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So many people are wrong on the internet. Most, probably. Perhaps even all but a small few.

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@MarioBandeleras No

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@goodhandscap Yes… I agree and have been saying this as well. I suppose it’s improper to ask according to modern law/practice, but I’d want to know someone’s financial and life situation before committing to them.

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@goodhandscap Yes it was understood and acknowledged

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Smart

[Alexander @alexanderrX_]

7 years doing the city 8-6 grind and i’m out. the corporate ladder is broken.

took a fully remote role, doubled down on side projects. i’ll work stupid hours and weekends no problem. just not so the state and some corp can take most of the upside.

the future is mobility. low tax, warm, stable. britain can keep raising taxes on productive people. i’ll be somewhere that doesn’t.

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@danialkalbasi Gorgeous

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Last week, I walked the 100-mile West Highland Way in the Scottish Highlands with my brothers. Lifelong memory.

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