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LM: #326: Skills on sale
Skills are on sale and resources are cheap.
What used to take a weekend and required coding skills now takes a lunch break and doesn’t. What took millions of dollars and wrangling a cast and crew can be rendered while you check your phone.
So what is the result of a world where anyone can create anything in a click?
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Jevon’s paradox states that when technology makes something cheaper, demand rises. So when executing ideas becomes cheaper, you suddenly have more ideas. If you’ve made something, you can attest that once you realize “you can just do things,” the idea floodgates open. The realization things are possible is in itself a huge reduction in costs.
But as you’re enjoying your newfound creative powers, everyone else is enjoying theirs, too.
What most won’t be able to do is focus long enough to make something deep and lasting. (Publishing platforms are made addictive on the creator side, too.)
In a world where skills are on sale, good taste and follow-through are at a premium.
Aphorism: “For a long time, technical people in the startup industry have made fun of ‘the idea guys’; people who had an idea and were looking for a team to build it. It now looks to me like they are about to have their day in the sun.” —Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO
Book: The Creative Act (Amazon) is legendary music producer Rick Rubin’s treatise on creativity as a way of being.
Best,
David
P.S. ”Too many ideas, must pick one.”
