Loved reading your perspective and seeing the parallels in our writing! In hiring, I try to understand how someone thinks and the problems they like solving, so I appreciate the cognitive fingerprinting idea. And I'm very much in favor of reimagining the "what do you want to be?" question to our kids.
Very insightful essay, with great ideas on how we can thrive ourselves, as well as help others.
My only “yes and…” comment is that too much of the language around talent, hiring and careers has always been and remains about identity vs. activity. What if we switched to talking about careers as verbs instead of nouns, as in “I entreprenur, I write” instead of “I am an …entrepreneur, writer”?
Then we could see that ourwork life is a series of projects instead of a predetermined straitjacket. It would lower the stakes of failure and encourage exploration and experimentation.
@Lawrence Lundy-Bryan I thought you would be interested in this article. Some themes might resonate with you in regards to the future of work (and education)
good essay, this is one level before my: do work with your hands! it’s more meaningful! argument. You’re right, probably better to help kids figure out what they want and what they love.
The challenge is now to tie this somehow to economic participation. (Assuming we don’t get to a post-scarcity/UBI wonderland in the next few years).
I do think with memory, claude/chatGPT/gemini can probably already give the user a very good steer on what they would enjoy doing AND could likely map to available jobs…. that’s a startup idea!
even better, the so-called ‘personalised learning’ platforms + chat memory + job board collapses the "job discovery” workflow.
Thank you! Appreciate the comment. You nailed something essential: it’s not enough to help people find what they love; we also have to make sure there’s a real path to participate meaningfully in the economy.
I see this as a two-sided failure … almost like a broken marketplace. On one side, candidates often don’t know how to map their skills to real roles. On the other, companies struggle to truly see talent beyond credentials or surface-level proxies and to place people where they’ll actually thrive. It’s not a lack of tools. It’s a failure of imagination and systems design.
Delighted our paths crossed, immediate subscribe
Thank you! Loved listening to your article. It resonated deeply with me. So serendipitous that I followed a nudge when I read Jenny's Note.
Thank you for the kind words, Janet. We can build a better future ❤️
You are welcome! 💯 ❤️
So encouraging that there are many folks here humanizing the future with AI.
Loved reading your perspective and seeing the parallels in our writing! In hiring, I try to understand how someone thinks and the problems they like solving, so I appreciate the cognitive fingerprinting idea. And I'm very much in favor of reimagining the "what do you want to be?" question to our kids.
That’s beautiful, Courtney. Thanks for leading with care and purpose
Amazing essay. Thank you much for writing it. I think you will like reading my idea of how AI and humans can thrive together. https://open.substack.com/pub/roiezra/p/hi-for-humanity-one-day-every-two?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=supoi
Thanks for sharing. I will take a look
Very insightful essay, with great ideas on how we can thrive ourselves, as well as help others.
My only “yes and…” comment is that too much of the language around talent, hiring and careers has always been and remains about identity vs. activity. What if we switched to talking about careers as verbs instead of nouns, as in “I entreprenur, I write” instead of “I am an …entrepreneur, writer”?
Then we could see that ourwork life is a series of projects instead of a predetermined straitjacket. It would lower the stakes of failure and encourage exploration and experimentation.
This is a great insight, Paul. Thanks for sharing it.
@Lawrence Lundy-Bryan I thought you would be interested in this article. Some themes might resonate with you in regards to the future of work (and education)
good essay, this is one level before my: do work with your hands! it’s more meaningful! argument. You’re right, probably better to help kids figure out what they want and what they love.
The challenge is now to tie this somehow to economic participation. (Assuming we don’t get to a post-scarcity/UBI wonderland in the next few years).
I do think with memory, claude/chatGPT/gemini can probably already give the user a very good steer on what they would enjoy doing AND could likely map to available jobs…. that’s a startup idea!
even better, the so-called ‘personalised learning’ platforms + chat memory + job board collapses the "job discovery” workflow.
Thank you! Appreciate the comment. You nailed something essential: it’s not enough to help people find what they love; we also have to make sure there’s a real path to participate meaningfully in the economy.
I see this as a two-sided failure … almost like a broken marketplace. On one side, candidates often don’t know how to map their skills to real roles. On the other, companies struggle to truly see talent beyond credentials or surface-level proxies and to place people where they’ll actually thrive. It’s not a lack of tools. It’s a failure of imagination and systems design.
Thrive - the ask is both simple and complex.
I connected with your journey, pain and yet feeling the moment…
My sharing of below post, comes from same place your personal story - I just began my journey to answer, decades earlier.
“When humanity thrives limitlessly, the beginning truly doesn't matter.”
#DataISYou
https://matthewashburn.substack.com/p/privatizing-personal-data-the-foundation?r=w0s1