🌀 How to win in the new economy

Hi folks! Today’s essay will explore:

• why the Adapative Economy is something everyone should pay attention to today

• how to win in this new economy

• the most important skills to develop over the next 10 years

• why expert generalists are uniquely positioned to succeed in this era

I welcome you to screenshot your fave bits & share them on LinkedIn (tag @generalistworld so I can say hi!)

As always, can’t wait to hear what you think,

Milly 👋 

There’s a phenomenon that’s staring you in the face; it’ll determine your wealth, it’ll shape your quality of life, and it’ll make a deep dent in how you work for the next 20+ years—and nobody’s talking about it.

📈 How to win in the new economy

Over the past 150 years, our experience of the world has undergone a seismic shift. Think back to when you got your first cell phone. It wasn’t that long ago, right? Remember TV’s with chunky behinds? When digital cameras where mind-blowing? The singsong of dial-up internet? Heck, I remember being floored by my Tamagotchi! All of these advancements happened in the past two decades alone.

Here’s a thought experiment for you.

Think back to a time we all remember all too well—Covid. In 2020, AI existed for most of us in sci-fi books. It was a thing we’d heard of, we could imagine it, but we hadn’t played with it ourselves. It was abstract. Sure, it existed, but not used by the general public, and certainly not to the capability of GPT-4o.

Because of AI, we now live in a time where access to infinite knowledge is faster, cheaper, more globally accessible, and getting smarter every single second. By the time you finish reading this sentence, AI has improved. And now? It’s improved again.

And why this matters to you can be summed up by the most important words and urgent words of this essay so far: infinite knowledge.

AI is improving at a rate that our not-so-long-ago-chimp-brains cannot compete with. Not in a hundred lifetimes.

So, what comes next?

I was 900m up a mountain when it hit me. We’re not just in the midst of technological leaps. We’re not just experiencing a mere bump in the road of how we approach education and careers.

We’re entering a new economy. One that nobody is talking about, and very few are prepared for. In this essay, I’ll break down my working theory of ‘the new economy’, and explore the 3 ways you can win in this era.