AI: The New Wave of Opportunity and Distraction

Someone posted that people are grieving over ChatGPT updates like losing a friend, saying we've crossed into dangerous territory. This sparked something important.

Here's my take: We can agree that the people we consume are either the ones who've scaled with unscalable models - or socialable people who deal with human interaction well.

The reality is, it's never been easier to be successful, but it's also never been easier to be distracted.

AI is going to be the new wave of both Opportunity... and Distraction.

Social Media was the highest form of leverage, in parallel to Code.

Let me be honest: But now AI tops both as the new highest form of leverage.

It can assist your decision making and do things for you.

Where it comes in as a distraction, is replacing human interaction and critical thinking.

Here's the framework that matters: Short-form content created a lot of successful and unsuccessful people - the information overload is good & bad depending on the rate of growth of the human consuming it.

Rate of Growth = Rate of Learning x Rate of Change

The leverage equation: AI can amplify both your success and your failure patterns.

If you're someone who scales with human interaction and critical thinking, AI becomes a tool.

If you replace those core competencies with AI, you become dependent on the machine.

Bottom line: The winners will be those who use AI to enhance their human capabilities, not replace them.

Use it for efficiency and decision support. Keep the human elements that actually drive results.

Opportunity or distraction - the choice is yours.

Hope you found this valuable! :)

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