Capturing Creativity during the New Economy: The Age of Rapidly Changing Information

I want to make it a point to preface this with the statement that I have not and am not using any ChatGPT and the like to run through my blogs, not even for grammar (the spell check is sufficient enough for me). What you’re about to read has a 100% originality guarantee and you can count on that. 

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most adaptable to change”- Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

I often think back to this quote which I wrote on the first page of one of my old journals from 2015. In the past year and a half especially I find myself changing course quite often in regards to decisions I make in terms of my career path. Not too long ago I was in the Venture Capital Industry as a junior in other people’s funds. Eventually, the growth I was looking to make reached a ceiling in terms of compounding impact. Intuitivity, the next step was to launch my own fund. Although I was developing my specialization, or niche (ish), interest in the crypto space, I still had a lot to learn before I was going to take that next step of launching my own fund or joining a crypto vertical venture.

Although, who is to say that should be the next logical step? Ever since I joined X, then called Twitter, the amount of real time primary source information I have access to has increased ten fold. Through X, I have expanded my access to new blogs, media, and other sources of information, better than any other social media I have laid my hands on yet. It’s a loaded statement, and it took me a while to even start using Twitter, but almost four years later I can confidently say this now. Also, sometimes when I read books or see something on another piece of the internet, X has been a great cross reference source for up to date information on what a person or an organization has been up to.

This is not an ad for X, although I do encourage my peers to start using it, but rather an example of how the democratization of information on the internet has expanded my access to new information- fast and now. So, going back to career decisions, with the influx of ever new AI/Crypto/tech information, I was suddenly faced with impossible choices regarding where I should invest my time. Making a sharp change in a career path often requires a sharpening on the needed skills and required information to channel for that specific path. This is all fine and dandy, but the problem is that it requires actually sticking to a path. And, when you’re a person who is interested in many things, it can sometimes feel overwhelming.

In this case, it would also be a mistake to ignore the rapidly developing AI landscape. New AI progress announcements come out every day, the leaps are so drastic that any sane person is needed to ask hold up, what am I missing? Is there something others know of that I do not? There is no luxury of having the pause, then ask, this is not how it works in this new age. If you don’t hop on the train as you go, you might not hop on at all. Unlike crypto, where I spent the past year reading and studying about the fundamentals and the space, with AI the only way is to do stuff. Ah, the age old advice of taking space in the arena. We love to see it, anon. But, it’s true, the more data I receive from my physical reality the easier it is to adjust and course correct my path. 

For the past year and a half I was adamant on the fact that we are at the age of the intangibles, meaning we are more in the creating a vision kind of space rather than necessarily giving proven results (in all honesty one needs to do both, but for the purposes of this essay we’ll keep it yin and yang). Now, the more binary one is, the better. Pick something, and stick to it. Have a pipe line (this can go for any goal in life). But, with the influx of information, make sure you change, and change back if needed. Just don’t fawn over it.