You’re Not Ready for Superintelligence

Are we ready? I feel like I have to make this video. What is happening right now in AI is unlike anything I have ever seen.

So, here we are. There is literally no softer way to say it. If you're not making a change, you're going to get hurt.

And let's start with a thing that was the final straw for me. Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter, just laid off 4,000 people at his company. 50% of the entire company.

Why? AI. This is the biggest percentage employee layoff in S&P 500 history, like ever.

Like since inception. And then what happened? The stock went up.

Like, let that actually sink in for a second. The market just rewarded a company for getting rid of humans. Not for making more money, not for growing, for getting rid of you.

And we're already seeing the craps everywhere. Like one in four unemployed Americans has been out of work for 27 weeks. 27% of people who got a job this month, they took a pay cut.

That's the warning line. Right now in the US, we have 44% more home sellers than buyers. This has literally never happened before.

And I I think it's just the start. You know, the future is it's looking more scary, like doomsday But how does this impact you in the immediate? How do you win or lose with it?

Here's what makes the difference from every disruption before it and then how we can win, I think, still today. Because you see, chat GPT came out just over 3 years ago. Vibe coding became a thing a year ago.

And in that tiny little window, AI went from a cute demo to doing real work. And this is happening right now. Our new co-CEO, Plaudebot, just laid them off.

The number should wake you up. At its current capability, AI agents could handle tasks that make up 44% of all US work hours. Robots add another 13% on top of that.

That's just today's technology, which is also the worst this technology will ever be. So, when people talk about unemployment reaching places we've never seen before, yeah, there are credible voices warning that structural job loss could outpace job creation in ways nothing can fix. Some people are actually forecasting Great Depression level unemployment.

And I'm not saying that to scare you. I'm saying it because I want to protect you and I because I don't think things are fine. So, here's the incredibly hard truth.

Right now, you need to work harder than you ever have in your entire life. This video all started actually because I interviewed this girl the other day from Goldman Sachs. She had all the right degrees.

You know, she went to Northwestern and she had worked at a big company. After talking to her, I realized, oh my god, this poor thing, she's not going to make it in this world unless she makes massive changes. You know, when I asked her how she was using AI, she said she was using Chad GBT to ask for recipes and about how to garden.

When I asked her how fast she could make decisions, she said she liked to talk to all the stakeholders, pull it into a PowerPoint, then over the course of a couple weeks, make sure everybody's on the same page, and then move forward. Like, that world is dead. It does not exist anymore.

And I know we all listened to Boomer College advice and so we went, we got the degrees, but it's going to get rough out there. I mean, 51% of Gen Z's college degree, they say it's a waste of money. 60% of Gen Z jobs have nothing to do with their degree.

Like I do not have easy simple news for you. I just want to be the person in your business and life who tells you the truth. And the truth is we should all be scared for what is coming.

Yes, there will be opportunities, but there's going to be so much more disruption at the start than I have ever seen in my career. And so your world of work is never going to look the same again. You know, we got a majority of Gen Z considering blue collar work.

This statistic like hurt my brain. Only 1. 6 jobs exist for every 100 US white collar service people.

The barbell worker economy is going to be one of mass winners and losers. And it's here. Now, here's the things nobody's going to tell you.

The job that previously took an entire day is now going to take somebody an hour with AI. The work you usually used to be able to charge 5,000 for, you're now going to have to charge a h 100red for. It's all automated.

Nobody's going to tell you this, but I will. If you have a salary job at a company and you're doing things you like, hold on to that like it's the last lifeboat getting off the Titanic. The game has changed and you need to actually start making the decision to act on it.

The richest people I know are only doing two things. They're going all in on AI, building, not sleeping while trying to understand what's coming. And the rest of them are doing something kind of crazy, which is selling massively, cashing out.

Even some of them going to Europe, New Zealand, off-grid. It's weird how few people are in the middle. But I'm not old doomerism on this.

I do think there's ways we can make a lot of money and we can win. Here's the places though you would not be able to catch me dead no matter what. If you're at a company right now without an AI wartime CEO, get out.

How can you tell if your leader isn't obsessed with this if they're not talking about AI every week? If they're not reorganizing around it, if they're not shipping with it, if they're not telling you how to do it, if they're not giving top performers more AI, then if you're competitor CEO is obsessed, well, they're going to build smaller, faster machines that are going to eat your company or sadly even your job. So go find leaders that you can rely on in this world.

Second, if your role right now is where your value is basically moving data around, scheduling, routing, basic ops, like I take the information from here and I put it over here. If your job description is I maintain the system, that system is about to maintain itself. You got to level up your role or you're going to get pushed out.

Cubicles are full of men who said, "I'll do it tomorrow. " The third is companies with bloated middle management. That layer gets killed first.

Either the company does it or the market forces them to. And a leaner competitor is going to take them apart. Now, where might I go?

I would go learn the trades. You know, I know they told us learn to code, they said. Meanwhile, the electrician is billing 180 bucks an hour and booked out for 3 weeks.

So, go do things with your hands so you don't have to have it taken over by AI. Even exactly what we're doing right here, video production, shooting, lighting. Also, do not spend a single dollar on anything that isn't upleveling your skills for a few months.

Like I want you to remember, you don't want to be rich so you can buy G Wagons and Flex Jet photos. You want to be rich so you can sit on your porch with a coffee some mornings so you can go to the gym in the middle of the day, take long walks and have a team where you can call those meetings. That is being rich.

It has nothing to do with buying things to impress strangers. You need to be spending your money on getting more skills or on enjoying life. That's literally why right now we built an advisory and education business because you need to learn to go buy the businesses today.

Ownership's the moat. That's what we teach. You need to learn to scale your businesses or buy them.

Okay, what else can you do? I have a game plan for you. Number one is going to be shocking to no one.

Get really good at AI better than this guy because for some reason people still don't seem to realize this. They think their resume is the moat. It's not.

I want you to stop assuming you'll get the job because you went to a good school and worked at a good company. So, what does it mean to get good with AI? We're going to create a bunch of videos on this and how to do it in your life.

But one of the biggest things I want you to do is for everything you're doing, just ask this one question. Can AI do this for me? Can AI help me with this?

Then go actually ask AI if they can do the thing that you're asking. Every time you are even slightly tempted to do it by yourself, try to do a better version of it inside AI. Second, don't just use ChachiBT.

Use Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Cling. Go experiment with all of these. Become the person that becomes so unnaturally curious about how to get superhuman skills.

Nobody can stop you. Because while all of this is really scary, in some ways it's kind of like that movie Limitless where you get that little pill that helps you become something bigger than you ever were. I think we might have a chance at this cuz this world is shifting from can you manage the process to can you produce outcomes with leverage aka AI.

But the hard truth is I'm hiring like 50 people right now across my company. If you go to contrarianthinking. com, you can look up the careers at the bottom.

You can see all the jobs. Most of these are six figure plus jobs and I will not hire a single one of them if they don't use AI. I don't care where you went to school.

That Northwestern Goldman candidate got beat by someone who went to a state school with no fancy company names on her resume because she actually showed me what she was building. This is the age for people who are obsessed and curious. And whether you like this or not, every CEO I know is thinking exactly the same way.

I also want to say I'm sorry. I am genuinely sorry that so much of what you spent your life building, the degrees, the credentials, the pedigree, doesn't carry the weight it used to. I feel it, too.

Nobody could have warned you the rules would change this fast, but they did. And resisting that reality right now is the most dangerous thing you can do. I also get it like knowing you need to change and knowing how to change two very different things.

And so that's exactly why we are building this for you right now. Actually, I want you to come to my office. I want to invite you to the growth accelerator workshop.

Three days live. I want you to think about it like a company hackathon where you can actually leave with an AI playbook built around your business. If you have a business, I got you.

Our chief AI officer will be there in the room helping you figure out exactly where it fits. And if you're watching this thinking, I know I need to act, but I don't know where to start. Then I got you.

Links in the description. It's only 100 people. We keep it small on purpose.

And here's the thing. As AI lowers the barrier to creating things, it raises the barrier to selling things. Like distribution becomes your weapon.

So an audience, a network, a reputation, that's the infrastructure, the hub that everything else plugs into. And once you see that, the opportunity becomes obvious. Remember, like Jeff Bezos actually said it perfectly.

He said, it's generally human nature to overestimate risk and underestimate opportunity. And I do think that's part of what's happening with AI. You'd be blind to not see the layoffs, the disruption, the fear.

But maybe you and I are also missing the massive opportunity right in front of us. Like I think the number one reason businesses in 2026 are going to move forward is they get help with AI. Like small businesses are terrified right now.

They can feel the ground moving. They just don't know where to run and they don't have internal teams or the time to figure it out. So right now is probably a great time to help them.

Like Amjad, the CEO of Replet, one of the fastest growing AI companies of all times, told me exactly that. Like they've raised billions of dollars and he says, "I think now more than ever, finding businesses that are actually running inefficiently and going into them to figure out where to plug in AI, that is going to be a huge option for entrepreneurs. So if you can help them find a piece of their business where they were paying thousands of dollars and you can make a change for them for $5, how much can you take home?

tens of thousands of dollars for software you can generate for $5. And so you could literally go into any business and shave off costs and make it more profitable without even growing it. You don't have to 10x the revenue.

So what would I do? I would want to see at least a few of you try to find a local small business. You can be the person in your town, in your city who helps small businesses actually implement AI.

Ask the owner what their biggest bottleneck is, not do you want AI. Step three, build an AI tool for that. Maybe it's a chatbot to answer customer FAQs.

You can use tools like Claude and Replet and chat GPT and they can help you build this. Like remember what the Wharton professor said. Non-coders are building working products.

And then step four, show them how to use it. Don't just build it and leave. Train them.

And here's what happens next. I guarantee you they'll tell your friends about you. And all of a sudden, you have a customer case study.

Three new customers, a proven process. The people who figure out how to do this and turn that into a service are going to do really well over the next few years. Like HVAC companies, construction companies, gyms and fitness studios, every single one of them has repetitive tasks and most of them have no idea how to use AI to fix these problems.

That's your opportunity. Big consulting firms obviously they're focusing on enterprise clients. Tech companies are building general tools, but you you could go hyper local, hyper specific.

Can you be the person in your town? The barrier to entry is lower than it's ever been. The old paradigm, wait for disruption to happen to you.

The new paradigm, use the same tools causing the disruption as your advantage. The people who figure this out will be the builders, not the button clickers. I know this stuff can feel overwhelming.

If you're Gen Z, you aren't financially optimistic. You're like financially traumatized. You know, you grew up in 2008 financial crisis, student debt explodes, housing bubble, crypto bubble bursts, layoff in tech.

66% of Americans say they're running out of cash and that scares them more than death. The headlines are scary. The pace of change is intense.

But here's what I've learned. Taking action, even imperfect action, is always better than doing nothing. You don't need to change your whole life or business overnight.

You don't need to become an AI expert. You just need to identify one person who can lead this. Spend a couple hours experimenting.

Come to a workshop like ours. That's it. That's how you start.

The tools are here. The opportunity is right now. The only question is what are you going to do about it?