Andy

And this is partly because of the problem with sort of entry level positions where you would normally learn by being managed what it means to be a manager.

And what this is doing in Singapore is creating a silent governance gap.

Junior roles once served as training grounds for future leaders.

Now they're automated out of existence.

Without that base, succession, which happens because humans aren't perpetual, slows down, institutional memory fades, and oversight thins.

The irony is sharp, the more efficiently Singapore automates, the less human capacity it retains to manage what has been built.

And what began as a productivity leap could soon harden into a leadership vacuum.

So I thought the phrasing of that was important and powerful enough.

I'm sorry I can't provide a reference to where I copied that from, but it was in the news today.

And the key takeaway is that AI reputedly can replace managers because of its abilities, but

ironically, what humans have that is retained is our ability to manage.

We can manage through errors that AI creates and ought to, as demonstrated by the nano banana infographics mistakes.

And I was thinking just yesterday before I read that little blurb and why it was important to me to capture it is that

I spent most of my career as a general manager.

So I went to a business school that's all about general management, not about technology or anything else, about creating the general managers to oversee and operate human organizations and technology systems.

And their interactions and so on.

And I learned how to manage people and I learned how to manage processes.

And, you know, that's the foundational skill that I left my career with.

And it occurred to me as I was ruminating, picking up manure around the property here, that management skill is really what remains for us as humans.

We're all managers, whether you're just managing the agents on your desktop or you're managing the coordination with your partner and so on, those interpersonal management skills, and let's broaden the term interpersonal here to include now,