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Chapter 1: How do I navigate tech layoffs?
Chapter 2: What does 'enoughness' mean in personal finance?
Chapter 3: How can I invest in my 50s?
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Chapter 6: What is the relationship between capitalism and personal fulfillment?
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Chapter 8: How to balance parenthood and career in today’s world?
Same thing's happening in law, same thing's happening in every single industry where they can replace and use AI or other technologies to do so. And I don't think it's stopping anytime soon. Scott?
Yeah. So what I think of it as, the analogy I would use is that Ozempic or semaglutide drugs basically tell the brain, they stop sending signals that you're hungry. They send signals that you're sated much sooner.
And the most seminal earnings call I've seen in business was three earnings calls ago for Meta, where they announced that they had increased their revenues by 23% while decreasing headcount.
And if you're in the tech industry or software that's eating the planet and every year controls more and more of GDP and your revenues are likely growing, there's a signal going to your brain, need to hire more, need to hire more. What is going through every board, and I know this firsthand mind and CEO, and they can't say this in all hands.
They can't say in all hands, I've got good news, our revenues are up. But the great news is I'm going to need fewer of you next year. They don't say the last part because it is not aspirational. But the reality is the most seminal breakthrough technology in history is first and foremost, I think, being used for drug discovery and health care.
I think that'll be its biggest value add to expedite discovery around health care. But its second biggest quote unquote value add, quite frankly, is around efficiency, which is Latin for do more with less people. So this is and then you put that on top of the cloud and you just have every CEO thinking, how can I how can I grow my revenues 8 percent next year with 10 percent less people?
And also, it's up and down the stack. It's not senior managers. They tend to figure out a way to hold on to their jobs. Not always, but most of the time, but middle management and back. You'd hate to be in a back office right now for a B2B company or, you know, compliance or legal, whatever it is, these things that can be routinized. So there's going to be a lot of pain.
I just want to move to a question, like, what do you do about it? Because I hear from a lot of young men that are struggling. Who I am increasingly hearing from is people in their 30s, 40s, and 50s who say, I need to reinvent myself. or my career path has been derailed because quite frankly, I was a good software engineer. Maybe I wasn't a genius, but I was good at what I did.
I was working remotely, making 150K a year, and all of a sudden, I can't find a job. Overnight, a switch went off. The first thing I say is to forgive yourself. And that is, I've been unemployed for a good three to five years of my life. I was kind of wandering. I had sort of pretend jobs. I joined NYU so I could say I was doing something.
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