WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.019 welcome back to the deep dive i have to be uh 00:00:04.019 --> 00:00:06.700 honest with you right off the bat today's stack 00:00:06.700 --> 00:00:11.300 of research it just feels different it really 00:00:11.300 --> 00:00:13.820 goes usually we're looking at a trend or a new 00:00:13.820 --> 00:00:16.820 piece of tech maybe a historical event but today 00:00:16.820 --> 00:00:20.660 yeah today we're analyzing a vibration a vibration 00:00:20.660 --> 00:00:23.780 that's a good word for it there's a a distinct 00:00:23.780 --> 00:00:26.160 shift in the atmosphere isn't there yeah we've 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:29.570 spent And I mean years in this sort of theoretical 00:00:29.570 --> 00:00:31.809 phase of artificial intelligence. We've been 00:00:31.809 --> 00:00:34.210 talking about what might happen, what could happen. 00:00:34.250 --> 00:00:36.390 The someday phase. Exactly. The someday phase. 00:00:36.530 --> 00:00:39.189 Yeah. But looking at the sources for today, it 00:00:39.189 --> 00:00:41.590 feels like we've just violently crossed a threshold. 00:00:41.590 --> 00:00:44.439 We're not. in theory anymore. We've slammed into 00:00:44.439 --> 00:00:47.960 tangible reality. Exactly. And the catalyst for 00:00:47.960 --> 00:00:49.700 this deep dive, the thing that actually triggered 00:00:49.700 --> 00:00:52.840 us to sit down and record this, is a viral article 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:55.560 that has absolutely exploded across the Internet. 00:00:55.960 --> 00:00:58.100 It's a piece by Matt Schumer titled Something 00:00:58.100 --> 00:01:00.640 Big is Happening. And when I say exploded, I'm 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:02.579 not just talking about a niche tech bubble. No, 00:01:02.579 --> 00:01:05.579 this is different. This is over 40 million views 00:01:05.579 --> 00:01:08.180 on X. I mean, it is everywhere. It's being shared 00:01:08.180 --> 00:01:10.200 in tech circles, sure. But I'm seeing it from 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:12.659 artists, accountants, teachers, people who usually 00:01:12.659 --> 00:01:14.680 just scroll right past this stuff. It's crossed 00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:17.079 the membrane. It has. Which is usually the primary 00:01:17.079 --> 00:01:19.200 sign, you know, that the signals become too loud 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:23.090 to ignore. What Schumer... captures in this piece 00:01:23.090 --> 00:01:26.670 is what i'd call a jolt a jolt it's a jolt of 00:01:26.670 --> 00:01:30.349 collective realization it's that specific identifiable 00:01:30.349 --> 00:01:33.590 moment where all this fringe tech talk we've 00:01:33.590 --> 00:01:36.790 been following just crashes violently into mainstream 00:01:36.790 --> 00:01:39.510 consciousness jolt is the perfect word for it 00:01:39.510 --> 00:01:42.450 reading it i felt this this physical knot in 00:01:42.450 --> 00:01:45.430 my stomach not necessarily fear though there's 00:01:45.430 --> 00:01:48.060 some of that in there but Vertigo is a great 00:01:48.060 --> 00:01:50.140 way to put it. It feels like everyone is suddenly 00:01:50.140 --> 00:01:53.340 waking up to something huge all at once. Schumer 00:01:53.340 --> 00:01:55.480 frames it as an immediate disruptor. He's not 00:01:55.480 --> 00:01:57.480 saying this is five years away. He's saying it's 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:01.120 happening right now. Today. Precisely. But here's 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:03.120 the fascinating twist we are going to take for 00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:06.239 this deep dive. Schumer is ringing the alarm 00:02:06.239 --> 00:02:08.740 bell and he is absolutely right to do so. Yeah. 00:02:08.780 --> 00:02:12.099 We need to hear it. Right. But if we only listen 00:02:12.099 --> 00:02:14.259 to the alarm, we just panic. We run around in 00:02:14.259 --> 00:02:16.319 circles. We map. We need to know where we are. 00:02:16.340 --> 00:02:18.560 We need to know where we're going. OK, let's 00:02:18.560 --> 00:02:21.060 unpack that, because while Schumer is the trigger, 00:02:21.199 --> 00:02:24.020 he's not the mapmaker here. This is where we 00:02:24.020 --> 00:02:26.680 pivot to our second and honestly, our more substantial 00:02:26.680 --> 00:02:30.460 source for today. Correct. If Schumer is the 00:02:30.460 --> 00:02:33.379 lookout in the crow's nest shouting iceberg head. 00:02:33.879 --> 00:02:36.159 Or maybe land ho, depending on your perspective. 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:38.939 The navigator who drew the charts for this exact 00:02:38.939 --> 00:02:42.460 ocean years ago is Brian Ramell. Brian Ramell? 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:45.020 He's a futurist, the founder of readmultiplex 00:02:45.020 --> 00:02:47.770 .com. And he has been chronicling the ascent 00:02:47.770 --> 00:02:50.729 of AI since the 1980s. I mean, this is his life's 00:02:50.729 --> 00:02:53.669 work. So this deep dive is really a special read 00:02:53.669 --> 00:02:56.050 multiplex deep dive because we are going to look 00:02:56.050 --> 00:02:58.490 at Schumer's viral moment through the lens of 00:02:58.490 --> 00:03:00.909 Rimmel's framework. And specifically his massive 00:03:00.909 --> 00:03:04.050 body of work called the 5 ,000 Days series. Which, 00:03:04.069 --> 00:03:07.669 and this is the crazy part, he launched way back 00:03:07.669 --> 00:03:11.229 in December 2025. The premise of our discussion 00:03:11.229 --> 00:03:14.669 today is essentially this. Matt Schumer's viral 00:03:14.669 --> 00:03:17.759 warning. It's exactly what Brian Rommel predicted 00:03:17.759 --> 00:03:20.539 would happen right now, almost to the day. That's 00:03:20.539 --> 00:03:23.639 uncanny. It is. So our mission is to analyze 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:26.560 Schumer's jolt through the framework of Rommel's 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:29.639 5 ,000 days. And this is the really interesting 00:03:29.639 --> 00:03:32.939 part, the hero's journey. I love that. So we 00:03:32.939 --> 00:03:34.759 aren't just looking at what is happening, the 00:03:34.759 --> 00:03:36.780 tech, the models, the disruption. We're looking 00:03:36.780 --> 00:03:39.699 at where we are on the map of history. It helps 00:03:39.699 --> 00:03:41.719 quell the panic a bit when you realize someone 00:03:41.719 --> 00:03:43.719 saw this coming and actually wrote a syllabus 00:03:43.719 --> 00:03:46.199 for it. It structures the chaos. Yeah. And we 00:03:46.199 --> 00:03:48.680 need structure right now more than ever. Absolutely. 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:51.340 So let's start with the signal itself. Let's 00:03:51.340 --> 00:03:54.180 deconstruct Matt Schumer's something big is happening. 00:03:54.360 --> 00:03:56.580 What exactly is he saying that got 40 million 00:03:56.580 --> 00:03:58.860 people to stop scrolling and pay attention? Because 00:03:58.860 --> 00:04:01.800 let's be honest, people scroll past AI is coming 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:04.599 posts all day long. All day. Why did this one 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:07.759 stick? Well, Schumer's core argument resonates 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:11.409 because it's about two things. Speed and irreversibility. 00:04:11.729 --> 00:04:14.009 Yeah. And he anchors it with a comparison that 00:04:14.009 --> 00:04:17.009 everyone globally has a visceral memory of. COVID 00:04:17.009 --> 00:04:20.490 -19. COVID -19. Think back to March 2020. Do 00:04:20.490 --> 00:04:22.870 you remember that specific week, that one week 00:04:22.870 --> 00:04:25.050 where everything changed? Vividly. I remember 00:04:25.050 --> 00:04:27.430 it almost on a day by day basis. It was like 00:04:27.430 --> 00:04:29.629 one day the world was normal and the next day 00:04:29.629 --> 00:04:32.189 the NBA was canceled. Borders were closing and 00:04:32.189 --> 00:04:35.009 everyone was like washing their groceries. Exactly. 00:04:35.089 --> 00:04:37.430 It wasn't a gradual transition where we slowly 00:04:37.430 --> 00:04:39.920 adopted masks and remote. work over a decade, 00:04:40.079 --> 00:04:42.779 it was an immediate system -wide shock. A hard 00:04:42.779 --> 00:04:45.759 stop. A hard stop. Schumer is arguing that the 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:48.319 release of these recent AI models is that same 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:50.620 level of disruptor. He's telling us that the 00:04:50.620 --> 00:04:52.740 normal world, the one we knew last month, it 00:04:52.740 --> 00:04:54.959 ended yesterday. And we're just now realizing 00:04:54.959 --> 00:04:56.839 we're in the new one. And he's not being vague. 00:04:56.939 --> 00:04:59.240 He names names. He's not talking about some generic 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:02.079 AI in the clouds. No, he's very specific. He's 00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:05.199 talking about recent releases like OpenAI's GPT 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:09.050 5 .3 codecs. And anthropic's OOP is 4 .6. Yeah. 00:05:09.170 --> 00:05:12.550 And the distinction he makes is vital. For a 00:05:12.550 --> 00:05:15.189 long time, skeptics, and frankly many of us, 00:05:15.310 --> 00:05:19.410 dismissed AI as stochastic parrots. You know, 00:05:19.410 --> 00:05:22.529 just fancy autocomplete. Predicting the next 00:05:22.529 --> 00:05:25.449 word based on probability. Right. Just remixing 00:05:25.449 --> 00:05:27.230 what it's already seen. No real understanding. 00:05:27.730 --> 00:05:30.189 Schumer says we have moved past that paradigm. 00:05:30.889 --> 00:05:33.209 He's arguing we are now dealing with systems 00:05:33.209 --> 00:05:36.069 that possess, and these are his words, judgment. 00:05:36.740 --> 00:05:39.560 taste, and the ability to self -improve. Okay, 00:05:39.660 --> 00:05:42.439 that self -improve part. That is where it gets 00:05:42.439 --> 00:05:44.180 really interesting and honestly a little scary. 00:05:44.540 --> 00:05:46.660 That feels like the sci -fi line we weren't supposed 00:05:46.660 --> 00:05:49.019 to cross for another 50 years. It's the mechanism 00:05:49.019 --> 00:05:51.300 of what theorists call the intelligence explosion. 00:05:51.819 --> 00:05:53.560 Schumer points out that we are entering a phase 00:05:53.560 --> 00:05:55.540 where these models can debug their own code. 00:05:55.699 --> 00:05:57.579 Which means they can. They can accelerate their 00:05:57.579 --> 00:05:59.459 own development. So let's break that down in 00:05:59.459 --> 00:06:02.199 simple terms. A human, a person, writes a piece 00:06:02.199 --> 00:06:04.980 of code. It has a bug. The human has to sleep. 00:06:05.339 --> 00:06:07.620 Drink coffee, stare at the screen for hours, 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:10.959 maybe ask a colleague. Right. It's a slow biological 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:13.639 process. And then they fix the bug. That takes 00:06:13.639 --> 00:06:17.500 time. A lot of time. Right. But now the AI writes 00:06:17.500 --> 00:06:21.199 the code. The AI tests the code. The AI finds 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:23.699 the bug. The AI fixes the bug. And it does this 00:06:23.699 --> 00:06:27.120 loop, this entire cycle in milliseconds. 24 hours 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:29.480 a day. Seven days a week. Yeah. With no coffee 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:32.519 breaks, no weekends, no sleeping. So it's a recursive 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:35.920 loop. The AI builds a better AI, which immediately 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:38.800 starts building an even better AI. Exactly. And 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:41.019 that creates an exponential curve. It's the classic 00:06:41.019 --> 00:06:43.579 hockey stick graph, but for intelligence itself. 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:47.660 And this is the disconnect. Humans adapt linearly. 00:06:47.899 --> 00:06:50.339 We learn a new skill. We practice. We get better 00:06:50.339 --> 00:06:52.040 over months and years. That's a straight line. 00:06:52.259 --> 00:06:54.939 It's a straight line. But AI is improving at 00:06:54.939 --> 00:06:58.120 a rate that is, well, vertical compared to our 00:06:58.120 --> 00:07:01.199 horizontal adaptation. This is why Schumer predicts 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:04.040 that vast swaths of cognitive work could be rendered 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:06.620 obsolete within one to five years. One to five 00:07:06.620 --> 00:07:09.319 years. One to five. That's nothing. That is a 00:07:09.319 --> 00:07:11.600 blink of an eye in career terms. That's less 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:13.540 time than it takes to get a college degree. So 00:07:13.540 --> 00:07:16.519 if I'm a junior developer right now or a copywriter 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:19.100 or an accountant and I'm reading that, I'm panicking. 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:22.560 I'm thinking, I just spent four years and $100 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:25.579 ,000 on a degree for this. Which is why his call 00:07:25.579 --> 00:07:28.240 to action is so aggressive. He's not saying keep 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:30.600 an eye on this. He's not saying learn about AI 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:34.120 in your spare time. He's saying experiment with 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:38.519 AI tools daily, not weekly, daily. Build financial 00:07:38.519 --> 00:07:41.439 resilience immediately. Start saving like your 00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:44.259 job depends on it because it does. And rethink 00:07:44.259 --> 00:07:47.379 your education and career path now. He's practically 00:07:47.379 --> 00:07:49.800 screaming at the reader to wake up. It's the 00:07:49.800 --> 00:07:52.800 adapt or die speech. It's harsh, but maybe it's 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:55.139 necessary if that timeline is even remotely accurate. 00:07:55.399 --> 00:07:58.069 In a sense, yes. But this is where we really 00:07:58.069 --> 00:08:00.589 need to widen the lens. Schumer provides the 00:08:00.589 --> 00:08:02.209 immediate shock. He's the smelling salts that 00:08:02.209 --> 00:08:05.029 wake you up. But Brian Romomo provides the context 00:08:05.029 --> 00:08:08.269 of why you woke up and, more importantly, where 00:08:08.269 --> 00:08:09.949 you are now that you're awake. Let's bring in 00:08:09.949 --> 00:08:12.189 the 5 ,000 days framework. Because when Schumer 00:08:12.189 --> 00:08:14.370 posted this, I have to imagine Romomo's longtime 00:08:14.370 --> 00:08:15.990 readers were just nodding their heads saying, 00:08:16.069 --> 00:08:18.639 yep, here we go. It's starting. They absolutely 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:21.319 were. I mean, Brian Rummel has a bit of an I 00:08:21.319 --> 00:08:23.720 told you so moment right now, though he's always 00:08:23.720 --> 00:08:26.300 very gracious about it. He launched the 5000 00:08:26.300 --> 00:08:29.759 Days series to describe what he calls the abundance 00:08:29.759 --> 00:08:32.500 interregnum. Abundance interregnum. OK, that 00:08:32.500 --> 00:08:35.879 sounds incredibly heavy and academic. Let's unpack 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:38.220 that. What does it actually mean? An interregnum 00:08:38.220 --> 00:08:42.100 is a pause or an interruption between two periods 00:08:42.100 --> 00:08:45.000 of rule. Historically, it's like when a king 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:47.539 dies and the successor hasn't been crowned yet. 00:08:47.820 --> 00:08:50.179 Okay, a chaotic in -between time. Exactly. The 00:08:50.179 --> 00:08:52.179 old laws don't quite apply anymore, but the new 00:08:52.179 --> 00:08:54.139 laws aren't written yet. It's a time of flux, 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:57.480 of uncertainty, of chaos. So we are in the gap 00:08:57.480 --> 00:09:00.320 between two worlds. Rommel posits that we are 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:02.899 entering a transitional period of roughly 13 00:09:02.899 --> 00:09:06.820 .7 years, which is about 5 ,000 days. We're moving 00:09:06.820 --> 00:09:09.500 from the world we know, a world defined by scarcity 00:09:09.500 --> 00:09:11.759 and labor for survival. The world of the 9 -to 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:14.440 -5 job. The world of the 9 -to -5, yes, to a 00:09:14.440 --> 00:09:16.980 destination he calls unprecedented plenitude. 00:09:17.100 --> 00:09:19.139 A world where we don't have to work to survive. 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:21.879 That sounds like Star Trek. That sounds like 00:09:21.879 --> 00:09:25.080 a utopia. The destination is utopian. The destination 00:09:25.080 --> 00:09:27.759 is a world where energy, intelligence, and goods 00:09:27.759 --> 00:09:32.529 are effectively free or close to it. But... And 00:09:32.529 --> 00:09:35.830 this is the big flashing neon, but we have to 00:09:35.830 --> 00:09:37.870 get through the 5 ,000 days first. Right, the 00:09:37.870 --> 00:09:40.269 journey. And Rommel describes this journey not 00:09:40.269 --> 00:09:43.070 as a smooth ride on a bullet train, but as a 00:09:43.070 --> 00:09:46.269 crucible of change. So the destination is paradise, 00:09:46.429 --> 00:09:50.450 but the journey is hell. The journey is upheaval. 00:09:50.789 --> 00:09:52.750 It's the storm Schumer is feeling right now. 00:09:53.289 --> 00:09:55.210 Rommel predicted that before we get to the abundance, 00:09:55.509 --> 00:09:57.850 we have to go through the complete deconstruction 00:09:57.850 --> 00:10:00.149 of the current economic order. You can't build 00:10:00.149 --> 00:10:02.389 the new world on top of the old one without tearing 00:10:02.389 --> 00:10:04.690 some things down first. And the alignment between 00:10:04.690 --> 00:10:07.230 their predictions is it's spooky. It's not just 00:10:07.230 --> 00:10:09.669 AI will be good or AI will be disruptive. It's 00:10:09.669 --> 00:10:11.769 the specifics. It's incredibly precise. Let's 00:10:11.769 --> 00:10:13.929 take coding, for example. Schumer points out 00:10:13.929 --> 00:10:16.210 that AI writing apps in code is the tip of the 00:10:16.210 --> 00:10:18.779 spear. He says the new models are basically software 00:10:18.779 --> 00:10:22.179 engineers in a box. Ruremel, years ago, identified 00:10:22.179 --> 00:10:25.019 coding proficiency as the catalyst for broader 00:10:25.019 --> 00:10:29.360 AI autonomy. He argued that once AI mastered 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:32.840 code, the language of its own creation, the language 00:10:32.840 --> 00:10:35.759 of logic, it would unlock everything else. So 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:37.480 teaching them to code was basically giving them 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:39.740 the keys to the library and the ability to rewrite 00:10:39.740 --> 00:10:41.539 all the books, including the ones about themselves. 00:10:41.879 --> 00:10:44.120 Essentially. It was the let there be light moment 00:10:44.120 --> 00:10:48.700 for machine intelligence. Another parallel. Ruemmel 00:10:48.700 --> 00:10:51.399 predicted that 50 % or more of white -collar 00:10:51.399 --> 00:10:55.320 jobs, law, finance, software, media, would be 00:10:55.320 --> 00:10:58.340 disrupted. Not blue -collar jobs, not at first, 00:10:58.500 --> 00:11:00.460 the cognitive ones. The ones we were all told 00:11:00.460 --> 00:11:02.659 were safe. The very same. And he was specific 00:11:02.659 --> 00:11:05.639 about the irreversibility. Both Schumer and Ruemmel 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:08.309 agree on this point. There was no going back. 00:11:08.409 --> 00:11:10.970 In previous economic shifts, like when manufacturing 00:11:10.970 --> 00:11:13.789 left a region in the U .S. or Europe, people 00:11:13.789 --> 00:11:15.909 were told to retrain. The mantra for decades 00:11:15.909 --> 00:11:18.730 was learn to code. Learn to code was the meme. 00:11:18.850 --> 00:11:20.669 It was the solution to everything. Oh, the coal 00:11:20.669 --> 00:11:22.850 mine closed. Just learn Python. The factory shut 00:11:22.850 --> 00:11:24.830 down. There's a coding boot camp for that. But 00:11:24.830 --> 00:11:27.529 what happens when the thing you are retraining 00:11:27.529 --> 00:11:30.029 to do is also being automated by the machine? 00:11:30.190 --> 00:11:33.509 There's nowhere to run. Exactly. AI's generality 00:11:33.509 --> 00:11:36.379 covers the adjacent fields, too. You can't just 00:11:36.379 --> 00:11:39.240 pivot from being a paralegal to a copywriter 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:42.120 if the AI is doing both of those things better 00:11:42.120 --> 00:11:45.580 than any human. You can't pivot to coding if 00:11:45.580 --> 00:11:48.480 the AI is the best coder in the world. That's 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:51.080 the daunting part. There's no safe harbor. In 00:11:51.080 --> 00:11:53.360 previous industrial revolutions, you could move 00:11:53.360 --> 00:11:56.419 from the farm to the factory. From the factory 00:11:56.419 --> 00:11:59.220 to the office, you could move to the safe job. 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:01.639 Right. Now, the safe jobs, the ones that require 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:03.940 a college degree, are the ones being targeted 00:12:03.940 --> 00:12:06.879 first. Exactly. The cognitive jobs are the target. 00:12:07.019 --> 00:12:10.220 And this brings us to what Rommel calls the syllabus 00:12:10.220 --> 00:12:13.059 of change. He actually breaks down this 5 ,000 00:12:13.059 --> 00:12:16.340 -day period into specific phases or parts. It's 00:12:16.340 --> 00:12:17.879 like a curriculum for the end of the world as 00:12:17.879 --> 00:12:19.519 we know it. Okay, I need to see the syllabus. 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:22.179 Let's walk through it. Part one is the call to 00:12:22.179 --> 00:12:25.480 adventure. Yes. And he frames this in very human 00:12:25.480 --> 00:12:28.659 terms. He focuses heavily on the class of 2026 00:12:28.659 --> 00:12:32.179 and on mid -career professionals. He identifies 00:12:32.179 --> 00:12:35.299 this moment right now as the time when traditional 00:12:35.299 --> 00:12:38.779 career paths begin to just vanish. So the call 00:12:38.779 --> 00:12:41.659 to adventure is basically a warning siren. It 00:12:41.659 --> 00:12:44.419 is. It's the realization that the degree you 00:12:44.419 --> 00:12:46.500 are currently studying for might be obsolete 00:12:46.500 --> 00:12:49.860 before you even graduate. Imagine being a sophomore 00:12:49.860 --> 00:12:52.470 in computer science right now. The job you're 00:12:52.470 --> 00:12:54.129 training for might not exist in the same way 00:12:54.129 --> 00:12:56.330 in two years. That is a terrifying thought for 00:12:56.330 --> 00:12:58.409 a parent paying tuition right now. You're buying 00:12:58.409 --> 00:13:00.490 a ticket to a destination that doesn't exist 00:13:00.490 --> 00:13:03.850 anymore. It is. And that fear, that sheer cognitive 00:13:03.850 --> 00:13:06.889 dissonance, leads directly to part two of the 00:13:06.889 --> 00:13:10.129 syllabus. The refusal of the call. The denial. 00:13:10.370 --> 00:13:12.210 The psychological denial. We see this everywhere, 00:13:12.309 --> 00:13:14.889 every day. It's the AI can't do what I do. It 00:13:14.889 --> 00:13:17.009 has no soul. Clients will always want a human 00:13:17.009 --> 00:13:19.590 touch. It hallucinates sometimes, so it's useless. 00:13:19.669 --> 00:13:22.450 I hear that constantly. AI can write copy, but 00:13:22.450 --> 00:13:24.649 it can't understand the nuance of my brand. Or 00:13:24.649 --> 00:13:27.289 AI can't really negotiate a complex legal contract. 00:13:27.509 --> 00:13:29.809 That is the refusal of the call. It's a defense 00:13:29.809 --> 00:13:33.029 mechanism, and it's understandable. But Ramon 00:13:33.029 --> 00:13:35.409 warns that this denial is incredibly dangerous 00:13:35.409 --> 00:13:38.090 because it wastes your most precious resource. 00:13:38.450 --> 00:13:41.750 Time. Time. While you are arguing about whether 00:13:41.750 --> 00:13:44.450 the AI has a soul, the AI is learning to do your 00:13:44.450 --> 00:13:47.779 job for one one -thousandth of the cost. Okay, 00:13:47.820 --> 00:13:50.080 so after denial, he moves to part three, which 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:52.879 uses this really cool historical analogy, the 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:55.940 player piano. I honestly hadn't thought about 00:13:55.940 --> 00:13:58.179 player pianos in years, but this analogy really, 00:13:58.220 --> 00:14:00.200 really clicked for me. This is one of my favorite 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:02.860 parts of his entire analysis. It's so clarifying. 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:04.679 Yeah. Think about the player piano in the late 00:14:04.679 --> 00:14:07.360 19th and early 20th centuries. Before that machine 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:10.240 existed, if you wanted to hear music in a saloon 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:12.419 or in your home, what did you need? A person. 00:14:12.970 --> 00:14:15.269 A pianist. A human had to play it. It was a skill. 00:14:15.289 --> 00:14:18.309 It was a job. A pianist was a necessary economic 00:14:18.309 --> 00:14:20.929 unit for music to exist in that space. And this 00:14:20.929 --> 00:14:23.269 machine comes along. You put in a perforated 00:14:23.269 --> 00:14:25.830 paper roll, you pump the pedals, and the keys 00:14:25.830 --> 00:14:28.509 move by themselves. Exactly. It replicated the 00:14:28.509 --> 00:14:30.710 pianist's performance perfectly every single 00:14:30.710 --> 00:14:33.360 time. Didn't get drunk. It didn't ask for a raise. 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:36.519 It completely disrupted the livelihood of thousands 00:14:36.519 --> 00:14:38.899 of saloon pianists and musicians. It turned the 00:14:38.899 --> 00:14:40.720 act of performance into a commodity you could 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:43.139 just buy and play automatically. So Romell is 00:14:43.139 --> 00:14:45.519 using this as a template for how AI generates 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:48.960 content. We are facing a player piano moment 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:53.440 for all cognitive output. For everything. Writing, 00:14:53.580 --> 00:14:57.019 coding, design, analysis, strategy. It's all 00:14:57.019 --> 00:14:59.159 becoming a piano roll. The text I'm writing, 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:01.799 the code you generate. It's just a pattern on 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:04.740 a roll now. Yes. The machine can play the tune 00:15:04.740 --> 00:15:06.840 without the musician being present in the room. 00:15:07.139 --> 00:15:10.929 The soul of the musician. ineffable human quality 00:15:10.929 --> 00:15:13.230 isn't required for the music to be heard anymore. 00:15:13.450 --> 00:15:15.570 That's a powerful and slightly chilling analogy. 00:15:15.809 --> 00:15:18.370 And it leads directly to part five of his syllabus, 00:15:18.649 --> 00:15:20.830 de -skilling. This is one that really stuck with 00:15:20.830 --> 00:15:23.870 me because Schumer says use AI daily, which makes 00:15:23.870 --> 00:15:25.809 total sense. You have to learn the tool. Right. 00:15:25.929 --> 00:15:28.669 But Romella adds this layer of nuance, this warning 00:15:28.669 --> 00:15:31.649 about the erosion of human expertise. It's a 00:15:31.649 --> 00:15:34.539 paradox. It's a real tightrope walk. You must 00:15:34.539 --> 00:15:37.279 use it to stay relevant, but if you rely on it 00:15:37.279 --> 00:15:39.379 completely, you erode your own capabilities. 00:15:41.820 --> 00:15:45.500 Rommel warns specifically about the loss of tacit 00:15:45.500 --> 00:15:47.659 knowledge. Tacit knowledge. That's the stuff 00:15:47.659 --> 00:15:49.700 that isn't in the manual, right? The gut feelings, 00:15:49.899 --> 00:15:52.480 the intuition. Exactly. It's the stuff you can't 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:55.159 write down. It's the experienced surgeon who 00:15:55.159 --> 00:15:58.100 knows something is wrong before the monitors 00:15:58.100 --> 00:16:00.600 show it. It's the senior engineer who can just 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:02.899 look at a piece of code and know it's going to 00:16:02.899 --> 00:16:04.940 cause problems, even if it's technically correct. 00:16:05.100 --> 00:16:08.059 It's the why. It's understanding why a piece 00:16:08.059 --> 00:16:11.559 of code works, not just that it works. If the 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:14.379 AI writes the code and your job is just to check 00:16:14.379 --> 00:16:17.059 it for errors, eventually you forget how to write 00:16:17.059 --> 00:16:19.519 the code from scratch. You lose the ability to 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:22.059 reason through the problem from first principles. 00:16:22.279 --> 00:16:24.879 It's like using a GPS. I'm embarrassed to admit 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:26.559 this, but I don't really know how to get anywhere 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:28.340 in my own city anymore because I just follow 00:16:28.340 --> 00:16:31.120 the blue line on the map. If the GPS breaks or 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:33.899 there's no signal, I'm genuinely lost. I've offloaded 00:16:33.899 --> 00:16:36.340 that mental map to the machine. Precisely. That 00:16:36.340 --> 00:16:38.159 is the human -in -the -loop problem on a personal 00:16:38.159 --> 00:16:41.240 scale. If we de -skill too much, we become helpless 00:16:41.240 --> 00:16:44.360 passengers. Rommel argues we need to maintain 00:16:44.360 --> 00:16:46.220 our agency. We need to be the captain of the 00:16:46.220 --> 00:16:48.720 ship using the advanced navigation tools, not 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:51.840 just becoming cargo in the hold. And then, after 00:16:51.840 --> 00:16:54.639 this process of de -skilling, comes part six, 00:16:54.879 --> 00:16:58.620 the dark night of the soul. That sounds ominous. 00:16:58.740 --> 00:17:00.700 It is, but it's a necessary part of the journey. 00:17:01.080 --> 00:17:02.940 This is the emotional core of the transition. 00:17:03.379 --> 00:17:05.700 It is the period of existential doubt when the 00:17:05.700 --> 00:17:08.339 job is actually gone or the threat of it being 00:17:08.339 --> 00:17:11.039 gone is undeniable. The identity crisis. A global 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:13.799 identity crisis. We tie so much of our identity, 00:17:13.900 --> 00:17:16.099 our self -worth, to what we do for a living. 00:17:16.220 --> 00:17:19.250 I am a lawyer. I'm a truck driver. I'm a graphic 00:17:19.250 --> 00:17:21.470 designer. When that economic value is stripped 00:17:21.470 --> 00:17:23.990 away, we are left asking, who am I? What is my 00:17:23.990 --> 00:17:26.990 purpose? That's heavy, but it's so real. Schumer's 00:17:26.990 --> 00:17:29.250 article hints at this panic, the urgency, but 00:17:29.250 --> 00:17:31.990 Rommel gives it a name. He validates that feeling 00:17:31.990 --> 00:17:34.430 of dread. If I'm not the guy who writes code, 00:17:34.650 --> 00:17:37.109 then what is my value to my family, to society? 00:17:37.670 --> 00:17:40.450 But, and here's where the framing is absolutely 00:17:40.450 --> 00:17:43.410 vital. Rommel doesn't leave us in the dark. This 00:17:43.410 --> 00:17:47.160 isn't a doomsday prediction. He uses Joseph Campbell's 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:49.640 monomyth, the hero's journey, to structure this 00:17:49.640 --> 00:17:53.039 chaos. I love this. Connecting ancient myth to 00:17:53.039 --> 00:17:55.779 futuristic tech. It grounds it, makes it feel 00:17:55.779 --> 00:17:59.480 human. So how does the hero's journey map onto 00:17:59.480 --> 00:18:01.819 the AI revolution? Well, think about the classic 00:18:01.819 --> 00:18:04.440 stages. First, you have the ordinary world. That's 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:06.799 the pre -AI stability we're just now leaving. 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:09.799 The 9 to 5, the career ladder, the predictable 00:18:09.799 --> 00:18:12.559 path. The world where if you worked hard and 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:14.720 followed the rules, you got promoted. That world 00:18:14.720 --> 00:18:17.619 feels like a distant memory already. Then comes 00:18:17.619 --> 00:18:19.859 the call to adventure. That's the release of 00:18:19.859 --> 00:18:22.880 GPT 5 .3. That's Matt Schumer's article popping 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:24.940 up on your screen. It's that external force that 00:18:24.940 --> 00:18:27.000 shakes you out of the ordinary world. It's the 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:29.359 universe knocking on your door saying, wake up, 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:31.259 things are changing, and you have to change with 00:18:31.259 --> 00:18:33.200 them. Followed by the refusal of the call, which 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:35.160 we already talked about. The denial, it's just 00:18:35.160 --> 00:18:38.000 a chatbot, can't do my job. Then we enter the 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:42.039 phase of tests, allies, and enemies. This is, 00:18:42.099 --> 00:18:44.099 I think, where we are right now. We are trying 00:18:44.099 --> 00:18:47.319 to find our... Abundance transition groups, as 00:18:47.319 --> 00:18:49.779 Rowell calls them. We are figuring out who our 00:18:49.779 --> 00:18:51.940 allies are in this journey. We're dealing with 00:18:51.940 --> 00:18:54.019 the initial economic chaos. We are trying to 00:18:54.019 --> 00:18:55.940 figure out which tools are our friends and which 00:18:55.940 --> 00:18:58.299 are just distractions. And this leads to the 00:18:58.299 --> 00:19:00.980 central challenge, the ordeal, the dark night. 00:19:01.059 --> 00:19:02.880 That's the peak of the crisis, the loss of the 00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:06.119 job, the confusion about identity. Yes, the moment 00:19:06.119 --> 00:19:09.140 of greatest darkness. But in the hero's journey, 00:19:09.299 --> 00:19:12.609 what comes after the ordeal? The reward. The 00:19:12.609 --> 00:19:14.970 reward. The return with the elixir. Rommel calls 00:19:14.970 --> 00:19:17.730 this the artisan's awakening. The artisan's awakening. 00:19:17.769 --> 00:19:19.630 That sounds beautiful. What does he mean by that? 00:19:19.730 --> 00:19:22.210 It is the idea that once we get through the crucible 00:19:22.210 --> 00:19:25.410 of the transition. Once we successfully decouple 00:19:25.410 --> 00:19:28.589 human labor from human survival, we return to 00:19:28.589 --> 00:19:31.329 creativity and passion. We do things because 00:19:31.329 --> 00:19:33.329 we want to, not because we have to pay rent. 00:19:33.529 --> 00:19:36.150 So we all become artisans. We bake bread, we 00:19:36.150 --> 00:19:38.670 write code, we paint, we solve physics problems, 00:19:38.809 --> 00:19:42.009 just for the joy of it. For the craft. That is 00:19:42.009 --> 00:19:44.789 the elixir. That is the hope at the end of the 00:19:44.789 --> 00:19:47.980 5 ,000 days. Schumer's article is a warning about 00:19:47.980 --> 00:19:50.759 the storm. Rommel's framework is the promise 00:19:50.759 --> 00:19:53.559 of the beautiful, calm, creative day that comes 00:19:53.559 --> 00:19:55.839 after the storm has passed. That perspective 00:19:55.839 --> 00:19:58.900 shift is huge. It really is. It turns, oh, my 00:19:58.900 --> 00:20:01.519 God, I'm going to lose my job into I am being 00:20:01.519 --> 00:20:03.400 called on an adventure and I'm going to have 00:20:03.400 --> 00:20:05.200 to go through a fire to become something new. 00:20:05.640 --> 00:20:07.799 Exactly. It gives the suffering meaning. It's 00:20:07.799 --> 00:20:09.460 not just random economic destruction. It's a 00:20:09.460 --> 00:20:12.400 narrative arc. We are the heroes in this story, 00:20:12.480 --> 00:20:15.000 not the victims of it. Now, navigating that arc, 00:20:15.079 --> 00:20:17.519 that journey, requires dealing with some serious, 00:20:17.559 --> 00:20:20.480 deep emotions. And Rommel actually brings another 00:20:20.480 --> 00:20:22.380 framework for this, right? He connects it to 00:20:22.380 --> 00:20:25.400 Elizabeth Kubler -Ross, the five stages of grief. 00:20:25.660 --> 00:20:28.980 He does. Because the death of a career... or 00:20:28.980 --> 00:20:31.480 the death of an entire mode of economic existence 00:20:31.480 --> 00:20:34.700 is a death. It's a loss. And we have to grieve 00:20:34.700 --> 00:20:36.920 the old world before we can fully embrace the 00:20:36.920 --> 00:20:38.680 new one. You can't just skip to the acceptance 00:20:38.680 --> 00:20:41.180 part. So let's go through them. Stage one, denial. 00:20:41.359 --> 00:20:43.299 We've talked about that a lot. It's just hype. 00:20:43.779 --> 00:20:46.160 Remember crypto. Remember the metaverse. They 00:20:46.160 --> 00:20:50.539 all crashed. AI will fail too. That is pure denial. 00:20:51.529 --> 00:20:55.250 Schumer's urgent, almost frantic tone is designed 00:20:55.250 --> 00:20:57.529 specifically to try and snap people out of this 00:20:57.529 --> 00:21:00.410 stage. Okay, stage two, anger. Ban the bots. 00:21:01.269 --> 00:21:04.410 Sue the tech companies. This is theft of artists' 00:21:04.589 --> 00:21:07.150 work. We see this with the lawsuits, the regulatory 00:21:07.150 --> 00:21:10.230 outcry. It's a natural and understandable reaction 00:21:10.230 --> 00:21:12.789 to a perceived threat. People feel like something 00:21:12.789 --> 00:21:14.589 is being stolen from them, their livelihood, 00:21:14.930 --> 00:21:18.059 their craft. Stage three is bargaining. This 00:21:18.059 --> 00:21:20.339 one feels a little more subtle. What does bargaining 00:21:20.339 --> 00:21:22.779 look like in this context? Bargaining is the 00:21:22.779 --> 00:21:25.740 frantic, panicked upskilling. It's the person 00:21:25.740 --> 00:21:27.579 who thinks, OK, if I just learn the specific 00:21:27.579 --> 00:21:29.720 prompt engineering technique, I'll be safe. Or 00:21:29.720 --> 00:21:32.759 if I just pivot my business into this super specific 00:21:32.759 --> 00:21:35.299 niche, the AI won't find me there. It's trying 00:21:35.299 --> 00:21:37.400 to make a deal with the inevitable. Yes. It's 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:38.960 trying to find the one magic trick that will 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:40.759 make you immune. But you're saying that's probably 00:21:40.759 --> 00:21:44.230 futile. In many cases, yes. Because the AI is 00:21:44.230 --> 00:21:46.690 a general intelligence. It learns the niche faster 00:21:46.690 --> 00:21:49.109 than you can pivot. Bargaining is like trying 00:21:49.109 --> 00:21:51.269 to make a deal with a tidal wave. You might build 00:21:51.269 --> 00:21:53.470 a small wall and buy yourself a few months, but 00:21:53.470 --> 00:21:55.490 the wave is still coming. Then comes depression. 00:21:55.970 --> 00:21:57.890 This is a dark night of the soul. It's the loss 00:21:57.890 --> 00:22:00.809 of purpose. It's the artist thinking, why bother 00:22:00.809 --> 00:22:03.390 learning to draw for 10 years if the model can 00:22:03.390 --> 00:22:06.190 generate a masterpiece in 10 seconds? It's the 00:22:06.190 --> 00:22:08.549 translator thinking, why bother learning French 00:22:08.549 --> 00:22:10.630 if this earbud translates it perfectly in real 00:22:10.630 --> 00:22:13.650 time? This is the danger zone. the point of despair. 00:22:13.990 --> 00:22:16.609 And this is where Rommel suggests tools like 00:22:16.609 --> 00:22:19.309 Viktor Frankl's work. Exactly. Frankl's man's 00:22:19.309 --> 00:22:21.890 search for meaning. The idea that you can find 00:22:21.890 --> 00:22:24.230 purpose even in the most dire of circumstances. 00:22:24.829 --> 00:22:27.410 The challenge is to decouple your value as a 00:22:27.410 --> 00:22:29.970 human from your economic output. You are valuable 00:22:29.970 --> 00:22:32.569 because you exist, not because you produce widgets 00:22:32.569 --> 00:22:35.410 for a company. That is a profound psychological 00:22:35.410 --> 00:22:38.329 shift for most of us. And finally, after all 00:22:38.329 --> 00:22:42.759 of that, comes acceptance. The elixir, the artisan's 00:22:42.759 --> 00:22:46.079 awakening. This is embracing the abundance. It's 00:22:46.079 --> 00:22:48.720 using these powerful tools to expand your human 00:22:48.720 --> 00:22:51.039 potential rather than fighting them as a threat. 00:22:51.319 --> 00:22:55.480 It's the deep core realization that the AI isn't 00:22:55.480 --> 00:22:59.160 replacing you, the conscious being. It's replacing 00:22:59.160 --> 00:23:01.480 the drudgery, the boring parts of your job you 00:23:01.480 --> 00:23:03.910 never liked anyway. It's a lot to process. I 00:23:03.910 --> 00:23:05.630 mean, going through all five of those stages 00:23:05.630 --> 00:23:08.309 is a journey in itself. And while individuals 00:23:08.309 --> 00:23:10.349 are going through this, there are real world 00:23:10.349 --> 00:23:13.509 societal consequences happening. We need to talk 00:23:13.509 --> 00:23:15.490 about the edge cases and the broader implications 00:23:15.490 --> 00:23:18.369 Rahm highlights. Absolutely. One of the biggest 00:23:18.369 --> 00:23:20.930 and perhaps most concerning is what he calls 00:23:20.930 --> 00:23:23.549 the laggard penalty. The laggard penalty. What's 00:23:23.549 --> 00:23:26.049 that? So Schumer's article has 40 million views. 00:23:26.289 --> 00:23:28.269 That's great. It's the democratization of awareness. 00:23:28.589 --> 00:23:31.130 But there are eight. billion people on the planet. 00:23:31.250 --> 00:23:33.450 Those who adapt early, the people listening to 00:23:33.450 --> 00:23:34.789 this, the people who are building AI literacy 00:23:34.789 --> 00:23:38.609 right now, they gain massive compounding advantages. 00:23:38.869 --> 00:23:41.509 And those who wait. Those who wait or those who 00:23:41.509 --> 00:23:43.650 don't have access to this information or who 00:23:43.650 --> 00:23:46.410 stay in denial, they face abrupt catastrophic 00:23:46.410 --> 00:23:49.670 displacement. The penalty for being a laggard 00:23:49.670 --> 00:23:52.289 in this transition is not small. It's potentially 00:23:52.289 --> 00:23:55.250 devastating. So inequality, which is already 00:23:55.250 --> 00:23:58.230 a huge problem, could skyrocket during this 5 00:23:58.230 --> 00:24:00.769 ,000 -day transition. It seems extremely likely. 00:24:01.190 --> 00:24:03.630 Romello points out the global impact, specifically 00:24:03.630 --> 00:24:06.170 on developing economies. Think about a country 00:24:06.170 --> 00:24:09.509 like India. with its massive coding and BPO business 00:24:09.509 --> 00:24:13.210 process outsourcing workforce. Oh, right. Millions 00:24:13.210 --> 00:24:15.230 and millions of jobs answering phones, writing 00:24:15.230 --> 00:24:18.049 basic code, handling data entry. It's been the 00:24:18.049 --> 00:24:20.069 backbone of the global tech economy for the last 00:24:20.069 --> 00:24:22.670 20 years. Those are the exact jobs in the direct 00:24:22.670 --> 00:24:27.109 crosshairs of GPT 5 .3 and Opus 4 .6. The disruption 00:24:27.109 --> 00:24:29.190 there will be felt much faster and much harder 00:24:29.190 --> 00:24:32.069 than in some other sectors. If the AI can handle 00:24:32.069 --> 00:24:34.650 tier one customer support or write basic Java 00:24:34.650 --> 00:24:36.910 code for nearly free, then... entire economic 00:24:36.910 --> 00:24:39.569 model collapses overnight. That is a very sobering 00:24:39.569 --> 00:24:41.950 thought. It's not just about my career in a wealthy 00:24:41.950 --> 00:24:44.529 country. It's about global stability. And then 00:24:44.529 --> 00:24:47.230 there's the flip side of de -skilling, the preservation 00:24:47.230 --> 00:24:50.619 of wisdom. We touched on a loss of tacit knowledge, 00:24:50.819 --> 00:24:53.900 but Romellon emphasizes the need for individuals 00:24:53.900 --> 00:24:57.220 to conduct personal vulnerability audits. A vulnerability 00:24:57.220 --> 00:24:58.960 audit. That sounds like something a corporation 00:24:58.960 --> 00:25:01.279 does for its cybersecurity. And you should treat 00:25:01.279 --> 00:25:03.299 your life and career like a corporation in this 00:25:03.299 --> 00:25:05.740 instance. You need to sit down, take a deep breath, 00:25:05.819 --> 00:25:08.480 and look at your skills honestly. What do I do 00:25:08.480 --> 00:25:11.720 every day? What parts of my job can GPT -5 .3 00:25:11.720 --> 00:25:16.170 do right now? Be brutal. No ego. Zero ego. If 00:25:16.170 --> 00:25:18.430 the honest answer is it can do 80 % of what I 00:25:18.430 --> 00:25:21.150 do for a living, then you are vulnerable. You 00:25:21.150 --> 00:25:23.829 need to identify that the remaining 20%, the 00:25:23.829 --> 00:25:26.289 tacit knowledge, the human intuition, the relationships, 00:25:26.509 --> 00:25:29.529 and double down, triple down on that. That is 00:25:29.529 --> 00:25:31.769 your lifeline. That's a fantastic, actionable 00:25:31.769 --> 00:25:34.490 step. So let's try to synthesize all of this 00:25:34.490 --> 00:25:36.829 for the listener who is maybe feeling that jolt 00:25:36.829 --> 00:25:38.529 from Schumer's article right now. We've thrown 00:25:38.529 --> 00:25:41.150 a lot of heavy, heavy concepts at them. The core 00:25:41.150 --> 00:25:44.720 message is this. Matt Schumer is right. Something 00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:47.319 big is happening. The signal is loud and you 00:25:47.319 --> 00:25:50.140 must listen to it. But Brian Rongel is also right. 00:25:50.339 --> 00:25:54.099 We have a map. The 5 ,000 days isn't a doomsday 00:25:54.099 --> 00:25:57.619 clock. It's a countdown to abundance if we navigate 00:25:57.619 --> 00:26:00.160 it correctly. So the takeaway isn't panic. It's 00:26:00.160 --> 00:26:03.720 prepare. Exactly. Don't panic. Prepare. So immediate 00:26:03.720 --> 00:26:06.500 steps for you, the listener. First, do that vulnerability 00:26:06.500 --> 00:26:08.779 audit we just talked about tonight. Look at your 00:26:08.779 --> 00:26:11.160 skills. Be honest. Second. Second, experimentation. 00:26:11.769 --> 00:26:13.990 Do exactly as Schumer says. Use the tools daily. 00:26:14.470 --> 00:26:16.769 Develop an intuition for them. Understand the 00:26:16.769 --> 00:26:18.650 alien mind, as some people call it. Don't just 00:26:18.650 --> 00:26:20.950 treat it like a better Google. Talk to it. Push 00:26:20.950 --> 00:26:22.890 it. See where it breaks. See where it surprises 00:26:22.890 --> 00:26:25.269 you. That's how you build literacy. And third, 00:26:25.470 --> 00:26:27.730 and this feels really important, don't do it 00:26:27.730 --> 00:26:29.980 alone. Crucial. Absolutely crucial. Find the 00:26:29.980 --> 00:26:31.619 allies that are mentioned in the hero's journey. 00:26:31.980 --> 00:26:34.380 Read multiplex .com is a fantastic resource, 00:26:34.599 --> 00:26:36.740 but also find your local peers, your friends, 00:26:36.779 --> 00:26:39.039 your colleagues who are awake to this. Community 00:26:39.039 --> 00:26:41.539 is the lifeboat that will get you through the 00:26:41.539 --> 00:26:44.079 dark night of the soul. You need people who speak 00:26:44.079 --> 00:26:46.380 this new language. We've covered the signal, 00:26:46.480 --> 00:26:48.599 the map, the syllabus, the myth, and the grief. 00:26:48.980 --> 00:26:51.559 It's a heavy one today, but I have to say I feel 00:26:51.559 --> 00:26:55.670 clearer. Not less concerned, but more clear. 00:26:55.890 --> 00:26:58.809 Clarity is the goal. We can't stop the wave, 00:26:59.009 --> 00:27:01.809 but we can learn to surf. I want to leave the 00:27:01.809 --> 00:27:04.130 listener with one final thought, one question 00:27:04.130 --> 00:27:06.970 to mull over. You mentioned Ramele's endpoint, 00:27:07.289 --> 00:27:11.390 the return with the elixir, the artisan's awakening, 00:27:11.650 --> 00:27:15.230 this idea that we will eventually work only for 00:27:15.230 --> 00:27:18.269 the love of it, for the craft. The ultimate destination. 00:27:18.809 --> 00:27:21.029 So here's the question for you, listening right 00:27:21.029 --> 00:27:24.740 now. If the return with the elixir is real, if 00:27:24.740 --> 00:27:27.000 you woke up tomorrow and never had to earn another 00:27:27.000 --> 00:27:29.519 paycheck again because AI and automation handled 00:27:29.519 --> 00:27:32.180 all the survival stuff, what is the first thing 00:27:32.180 --> 00:27:34.759 you would create? Not what would sell, not what 00:27:34.759 --> 00:27:36.380 your boss would approve of, not what would get 00:27:36.380 --> 00:27:38.740 likes on social media. In the quiet of your own 00:27:38.740 --> 00:27:40.480 mind, what would you make? What would you do? 00:27:40.700 --> 00:27:43.119 That answer, whatever it is, that might just 00:27:43.119 --> 00:27:45.119 be your lifeboat through the storm. Thanks for 00:27:45.119 --> 00:27:47.059 diving in with us. We'll see you in the transition. 00:27:47.359 --> 00:27:48.980 Stay curious. And keep reading.