Everyone's asking
which technical skill
will still matter later.
It's the wrong question.
Technical skills keep resetting.
The tool changes,
the framework turns over,
and the specific thing
you were valued for
quietly expires.
You start near zero again,
and again.
But there's a set of skills
that never resets.
Listening.
Communicating clearly.
Earning trust.
Reading a room.
Helping people feel understood.
Leading without force.
These don't expire
when a new tool ships.
They carry from one era
to the next,
one role to the next,
one decade to the next.
They compound
across your whole life
instead of resetting with the tech.
And as machines get better
at the technical parts,
these human skills
don't get less valuable.
They get more.
Because when the doing is automated,
what's left
is everything that happens
between people —
and that's the part
no tool has touched.
Invest in the skills that compound.
The ones that were human
long before the machines,
and will still be human
long after.
– Asael Shinder
