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What used to take 5 hours now takes 30 minutes with AI. But we still price work in hours. The real question: how do we get paid for seeing what needs to be done by offering a piece of being human? We're trying to measure intangible value with a definite metric. It doesn't work. This frames future work options so capital and people can both understand.
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I once had six weeks to find a job or be kicked out of the country. No safety net. No fallback. So I did whatever it took — learned tools I'd never touched, pitched work I wasn't qualified for, talked to anyone who could get me there. I didn't know it then, but that pressure was building a shape.
It's only through the act of doing that you become. You can't read your way into being X-shaped. You can't workshop your way there either. You become it by being thrown into situations where you have no choice — and figuring it out anyway.
Read MoreAI gave me 5x productivity. Five minutes to generate what used to take three hours. But here's what I'm learning: AI handles the definable work—the stuff you can break into steps and verify in loops. What remains is the work that can't be defined: reading a room, sensing hesitation, building trust. The productivity didn't free me to do more. It freed me to stay human. Let me show you how.
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