Sangeet Paul Choudary, bestselling author of Platform Revolution and Reshuffle, and senior fellow at UC Berkeley, joins the show to challenge the conventional wisdom about AI's impact on our economy. We explore why knowledge workers risk falling "below the algorithm," how curiosity and judgment become luxury goods in a world of cheap answers, and why our educational and career structures need complete reinvention rather than incremental reform.

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Show Notes:

Sangeet’s Core Thesis
Technology's Second Order Effects
Coordination Without Consensus
Resistance to Innovation
The Bottlenecks of Changing Systems
Staying Above The Algorithm
An Impending Cognitive Chasm
The Limitations of Reskilling
Redesigning Hiring for the AI Era
The Human Touch Fallacy
The End of Linear Career Paths
Collective Sense-making in Uncertainty
Sangeet as Emperor of the Day

Books Mentioned:

Platform Revolution; by Geoffrey G Parker, Marshall W Van Alstyne, Sangeet Paul Choudary
Reshuffle; by Sangeet Paul Choudary
The Hound of the Baskervilles; by Arthur Conan Doyle
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned; by Kenneth Stanley and Joel Lehman

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