Friend of the list, data scientist and AI and Analytics Specialist, Genevieve Hayes replied with this gold bomb to yesterday’s daily: 1% (shared with permission, bolding mine):
And even if a positive return on investment is guaranteed, this leads to the questions:
• Is that skill actually valuable (for example, I can solve a Rubik’s Cube in under 5 minutes, but I don’t think anyone is going to pay me to do so)?
• Will that skill actually be needed/wanted in the future? (for example, mastering a skill that might one day be taken over by generative AI).
Time is the most scarce resource we have and there are infinite ways to invest it. Just like any financial decision, you have to make the best decision in how to allocate your time, given the options available to you.
• Is that skill actually valuable (for example, I can solve a Rubik’s Cube in under 5 minutes, but I don’t think anyone is going to pay me to do so)?
• Will that skill actually be needed/wanted in the future? (for example, mastering a skill that might one day be taken over by generative AI).
Time is the most scarce resource we have and there are infinite ways to invest it. Just like any financial decision, you have to make the best decision in how to allocate your time, given the options available to you.
Think of it this way:
What are the skills you’d need to work on so that they will move you ahead of what’s going on right now?
Is it worth your effort to commit to?
Would these new skills make you be seen different —or would they only make you seen as a nice-to-have?
That will get you to do better. Not necessarily compounding, but still exponential if done right (→ what they call a learning curve).
Exponentially,