The tools are getting good
at the pieces.
Writing the code.
Drafting the doc.
Answering the question.
Each dot, faster than ever.
So don't stake your future
on being a really good dot.
Stake it on connecting them.
The rare skill now
isn't producing one more piece.
It's seeing how the pieces fit —
noticing that the thing marketing needs
is the thing engineering already built,
that this problem
is really that problem in disguise.
Machines are brilliant in a lane.
They struggle across lanes,
where the context lives
in people's heads and hallway conversations
and things nobody wrote down.
That's your ground.
Talk to people in other roles.
Learn how the parts of the business fit.
Get curious about the whole,
not just your slice of it.
The future won't reward
the fastest maker of dots.
It'll reward the person
who sees the picture
and connects them.
Be that person.
– Asael Shinder
