The Future Of Work (& The New High-Income Skill Stack)

The podcast explores how AI's increasing capabilities impact the meaning of work and life, particularly for creatives. It posits that as AI commoditizes many jobs, the source of meaning shifts from external validation to internal generation through personal taste, perspective, and story. The discussion introduces a four-act history of meaning, transitioning from divine assignment to individual creation. It also covers post-labor economics, where income diversifies into wages, government transfers, and capital income, emphasizing the importance of human skills like agency, taste, perspective, persuasion, and technical know-how in a future dominated by AI. The core argument suggests that the last defensible "moat" is one's unique perspective, energy, sense-making, trajectory, and evolving taste, which AI cannot replicate.