Let’s start with the easy stuff…
A bit of cross-posting to kick off this new Medium publication for GTD.VC, Lucas Dickey’s new advisory firm for startups looking to raise pre-seed (first money), seed, and Series A capital. More info to follow! But in the meantime, here’s some small nuggets from a recent LinkedIn post.
LinkedIn Chief Product Officer Tomer Cohen and I definitely agree on this sentiment: As we think about the future of work, thriving — not just surviving — in the era of generative AI (as well as other AIs to come) requires you adopt a rapid growth and learning mindset. This is true of both AI, but also any area of exponential growth and progression — which is many fields at this point.
You have to think in abstraction levels that generative AI just isn’t prepared to do yet. Investment shouldn’t be made in tactical details — basic copy, images, layout, code, data synthesis, bookkeeping, financial summaries — and the tools you use to generative them. You want to one to be a few layers above that, and use generative AIs as a human orchestrating those tools and driving them to your ends.
Tomer was recently on Harry Stebbings’s 20VC as part of the show’s “Product” series of episodes, where he interviews leaders in product, design, and engineering. I really enjoyed the episode, and appreciated Tomer’s humility throughout. He readily admitted what he didn’t know and where he made mistakes. Love it. Also, his ruminations on AI seemed pretty spot on to me as well.
Oh, and he threw out this nugget (that I’m not fact-checking but feels right to me): 25% of tools and type of work done in knowledge worker roles even 5 years ago is obsolete today. And that pace is only accelerating.
Fundamentally, it’s about learning to learn, quickly. Mental models. Frameworks. Means of information ingestion and synthesis.
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