Investor's AI-era parenting thesis: adaptability, entrepreneurship and sales beat STEM
dunkhippo33 · x · 2026-10-27
A widely-followed investor shares how he answers friends anxious about raising kids in the AI era:
- The durable strengths are adapting to rapid change, learning fast, and entrepreneurial thinking — no specific endpoint is predictable.
- Sales and people skills are underrated: you're always selling people on your vision, collaboration, or resourcing your cause.
- Creativity and design may matter more than STEM, since AI produces variations on existing ideas rather than truly "out there" solutions.
- Writing stays key but with nuance: LLMs are trained heavily on bad writing, so making text simpler and sharper — or editing AI output — remains valuable.
- Mid-career CS/engineering/math skills won't vanish but shift toward diagnosing where bottlenecks appear across system layers.
- He also had his kids run a lemonade stand to learn firsthand how hard making a buck is — persistence, placement and messaging matter for humans and AI alike.
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