The uncomfortable truth: your skills are a scarcity that no longer exist. For decades, the deal was simple: Learn the skill. Get the credential. Earn the premium. AI just nuked the premium. Not because skill is worthless, but because execution is no longer scarce. It’s abundant. So what becomes valuable? Imagination. The ability to see something that does not exist yet. And focus. Focus is the feedback loop where reality sharpens your idea while you build it. Skill is converting what’s in your head into reality. But the moment you start building, the idea changes. Your imagination refines. That refinement is focus. In an AI world, more people can do the work. Fewer people can imagine the right thing, then stay with it long enough to make it real. Imagination + focus is the new moat.
Skill economics framework: imagination + focus
❝ @levelsio If the skill part of making things moves to the AI Then everyone now has access to the same skills So then it's either not about skills anymore and everyone is competing with everyone on equal footing and all of us ending in a perfect competition with close to zero profit So
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