In an apocryphal story, legendary painter Pablo Picasso was walking through the market when a woman approached him and asked for a drawing.
Picasso quickly drew a small, but beautiful piece of art and handed it back to her.
"That'll be one million dollars," he smiled.
"But Mr. Picasso, it only took you thirty seconds!"
"On the contrary," he replied. "It took me thirty years to draw that masterpiece in thirty seconds."
This story is a perfect example of a modern crisis I'm starting to see in the AI era.
It's called the Locksmith Paradox: We have a tendency to undervalue something because of the low visible input required to create it, despite the output being exactly what we requested.
In this piece, I talk about the science behind this phenomenon, why it penalizes efficiency and rewards general incompetence, and how to fight back as individuals, leaders, and organizations...
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