Remember when “get a degree in computer science” was career advice you could set your watch by? For years, it was the safest bet. It was everyone’s ticket to job security in a world obsessed with disruption.

The machine is running at full speed. But, are we steering it or are we just keeping up?

We like to think we’re in charge. After all, we’re the ones giving instructions, coming up with the clever prompts, telling our AI what to do.

What if the choices you make every day aren’t really yours?

There are days when every decision feels borrowed. I catch myself moving through routines, following signposts someone else put up. The world offers options, sure, but they never quite feel like mine.

I grew up in a house of rules and routines, and movies were my way out. I’d watch them, replay the best scenes in my head, and sometimes imagine I was Steven Spielberg, building worlds bigger than the four walls around me.

I once asked my AI assistant (which I’d built to help me brainstorm, strategise, and think through decisions) what my biggest weaknesses were. Not as a test, but like you’d ask a friend who’s seen you on your best and worst days.

We used to figure things out.

For most of the internet’s history, that’s what it was for. It was a space where we figured things out. You'd go searching if you had a problem or even just a feeling that something wasn’t quite working.

The world’s most honest job interview question is finally on the table: “Are you sure we can’t get a machine to do this?”

Privacy once meant closing a door.

Today, it means defining which version of yourself a machine remembers.

These conversations are encrypted exchanges and it’s personal, custom, and revealing. Each message, correction, or late-night prompt adds another layer to how the machine understands you.

For centuries, expertise was the ultimate advantage. It defined careers, built institutions, and separated the credible from the uninformed. Doctors trained for years to diagnose. Lawyers spent decades mastering case law. Journalists worked their way up newsrooms, gaining experience in the field.

Privacy once meant closing a door.

Today, it means defining which version of yourself a machine remembers.

These conversations are encrypted exchanges and it’s personal, custom, and revealing. Each message, correction, or late-night prompt adds another layer to how the machine understands you.

I spent the last six weeks pushing harder than ever before. I churned out over 150 pieces of content weekly including videos and newsletters to dominate volume and it worked initially as traffic surged and investors took notice.

AI is shifting from an open technology to a gated industry controlled by those with the right resources. Companies are racing to build better trained models and as well as securing access to the hardware and infrastructure that determine who can compete.

I spend time considering how cheap knowledge becomes daily. You can spin up a strategy or a design pitch in minutes using artificial intelligence. It looks valuable immediately. I teach people the same steps and prompts yet they fail to see the same results. Their workflows differ from mine.

Every boardroom is talking about AI, but most strategies still stall on the runway.

Today, almost anyone can license a model or automate a workflow. But what separates the brands that pull ahead isn’t their tech stack. It’s their ability to bring people with them. Trust, up and down the org chart, determines whether your AI efforts create real value.

Artificial intelligence is erasing entire career paths right now, and I am watching this unfold in real time. In the past, I managed large teams and six-figure contracts that justified entire departments; however, those teams are shrinking daily. As headcounts drop, automation is steadily taking over work that previously required expensive specialists.

Long before machines suggested your next word, your thoughts were shaped by systems you didn’t design. School, media, culture each pressed a set of assumptions on your mind before you had the tools to question them.

I am watching the rules of the game change in real time.

We are witnessing the calcification of a distinct economic hierarchy and here we see clear divide now separates those compounding their lead daily from the rest of the market.