Nabeel Qureshi: Knowing How Computers Work Makes You Worse at Predicting the Future
nabeelqu · x · 2026-10-05
Nabeel Qureshi endorsed a point from Spiro Khamenei: knowing how things work can make you less likely to predict the future correctly. During the cloud era, insiders kept thinking "it's just a bunch of scripts on top of Linode, what's the big deal?" — and missed what Dropbox became.
This ties into Qureshi's earlier observation that the only generation that truly knows how computers work is also the most relaxed about AI. The insider instinct that "nothing here is fundamentally new" may be exactly the blind spot when judging disruptive technology.
Related event: The Generation That Knows Computers Best Is Least Anxious About AI(2 posts)→
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