Podcast Appearances
That one's funny because that's a very classic post where it's like,
Person like me has all the advantages.
Person not like me has all the disadvantages.
It's like everyone is just saying mantras to themselves because the root thing that's going on here is we are experiencing a moment of great change.
Everyone is very nervous about what that means for their own position in it.
A defense mechanism is to confidently assert a future in which you're a winner.
And that's almost what every single prediction that you see is happening.
You almost always trace it down to companies like mine will be successful.
Other companies will fail.
My job won't be replaced by AI, but everyone else's job will be replaced by AI.
And everyone has some rationalization for this.
But the root thing that's happening here is everyone is scared and worried and not sure about where things are going.
And we are just bombarded with predictions and protecting their own psyche.
yeah i'm just tired of predictions like yes we're gonna have time of great change i just focus on like the next day like what can we do today what can we do tomorrow i didn't know i was gonna be working on this a year ago i don't know what i'm gonna be working on a year from now i'm just trying to do the thing that makes sense right away uh this thing about like how young people have that that's like always been a thing young people have a lot of advantages they have the classic disadvantage of not having a lot of experience but having a lot of energy
uh i have a lot of experience but not as much energy as a 20 year old so it's just the same thing that's always been like you know it's and it's funny because he like that one's particularly funny because he said 24 to 29 why not like 18 to 25 you know it just told me it's clearly he falls in that age range which is why he's saying that it's just like yeah it just it just made up i think everyone's just like nervous and worried i think it's good to just be honest about it because it's true like i i mean i i'm nervous and worried as well just because it's
Yeah, it's so unobvious.
Everything that ends up happening is always counterintuitive.
There's always people that see it correctly and line themselves up properly for it.
But none of the obvious things ever happen.
The end state we're going to end up at, it's going to be so weird from our point of view now.