AI Amplifies Agency and Ambition
I’ve been in this game a long time.
Long enough to remember when “AI” was a term you only heard in university labs and sci-fi novels. In the circles I ran in, on Wall Street and later in the world of Big Tech, we called it “machine learning.” It was our secret weapon, a quantitative edge that could predict market shifts or user behavior with uncanny accuracy. We built complex models that felt like magic, but they were brittle, expensive, and required a small army of PhDs to maintain.
Today, that magic is being democratized at a pace that even I find staggering. The same power that we used to corner markets is now available to anyone with a laptop and an internet connection. And it’s creating a seismic shift, a great bifurcation in the professional landscape.
On one side, you have the builders, the creators, the founder-types.
These are what I call the high-agency individuals. These are the people who don’t wait for permission. They see a problem and immediately st…
