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TLDR: Regulation is inevitable—if democratic institutions don’t write the rules, corporations will through their “permission systems” Current complex regulations favor large companies while crushing small competitors, creating digital feudalism where platforms extract rent from participation The solution isn’t eliminating rules but creating thin, open, transparent protocols like the early internet that enable innovation without permission How We Traded Democratic Rules for Corporate Permissions Regulation is the landscape, not the weather. Whether you’re building an app, writing a newsletter, selling crafts online, or just trying to share your work with the world, you will encounter rules that shape what’s possible. If democratic institutions don’t write them, the market’s largest players will. The question isn’t whether we’ll have rules—it’s who writes them, and whether they serve the many or the few. ...

TLDR: We’ve industrialized knowledge work into teachable frameworks, making it vulnerable to AI automation—when you can standardize expertise, you’ve done most of the work needed to automate it Unlike previous revolutions that automated manual labor, AI is automating knowledge work itself, collapsing entire career progression pathways The remaining human roles will require managing ambiguity, relationships, and creative problem-solving—skills our education system doesn’t prioritize Success means recognizing this shift early and developing uniquely human capabilities rather than competing with AI on systematized tasks Every major technological shift creates two types of people: those who cling to the old ways and get swept aside, and those who recognize the change early and position themselves to ride the wave. We’re at one of those inflection points now. ...