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The Death of Average
AI isn't killing jobs. It's making average work harder to sell.
For years, being good enough was enough.
A decent designer found clients.
A competent writer found work.
A developer with average skills built a career.
Businesses paid for reliable execution.
Then AI arrived.
Today, software can write decent copy, generate acceptable designs, summarize meetings, translate documents, create presentations, and produce working code.
Not perfectly.
But often well enough.
That's changing something bigger than jobs.
It's changing what average is worth.
"Good enough" became free
Every major technology shift makes something cheaper.
The internet made distribution cheap.
Cloud computing made infrastructure cheap.
AI is making average execution cheap.
That's uncomfortable because many careers were built around producing reliable, predictable work.
Now that work is increasingly automated.
The value doesn't disappear.
It moves.
THE BIG SHIFT
Average execution is becoming a commodity.
Great judgment is becoming a premium.
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The winners don't do more
Many people respond by trying to work harder.
Publish more.
Code more.
Design more.
Reply faster.
But volume is becoming less impressive.
When AI can generate hundreds of ideas in seconds, creating more isn't the advantage.
Choosing the right idea is.
The future belongs less to producers and more to editors.
People who know what deserves attention.
What deserves building.
What deserves deleting.
Taste compounds
Great founders have taste.
Great designers have taste.
Great marketers have taste.
Great investors have taste.
It's difficult to define.
But you know it when you see it.
Taste isn't decoration.
It's consistent decision-making.
It's saying no far more often than yes.
That's becoming incredibly valuable because AI has no shortage of possibilities.
Humans provide the judgment.
THE NEW VALUE STACK
AI creates options.
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Humans apply judgment.
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Businesses create value.
Your advantage is becoming personal
Ten years ago, technical skills created separation.
Tomorrow, your perspective might matter more.
How you think.
How you solve problems.
How you communicate.
How you connect ideas that don't obviously belong together.
Those things are much harder to automate.
The internet already has enough average content.
It still needs original thinking.
Don't compete with AI
That's the wrong game.
Use AI to remove repetitive work.
Spend the saved time doing work only humans can do.
Build relationships.
Understand customers.
Make difficult decisions.
Develop better taste.
Create something people remember.
Technology has always rewarded people who learn to use it instead of fighting it.
This moment is no different.
ONE THING TO THINK ABOUT
If AI became ten times better tomorrow...
Which part of your work would still make people choose you?
That answer is probably your biggest opportunity.
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