THE CORPRENEUR BRIEF Intelligence for the executive who's building beyond the org chart. Issue #008 | Wednesday, June 10th

I hope you've been counting.

Because I want to connect what you've been observing this week to something that's happening in the market right now that most people aren't putting together.

Jack Dorsey didn't sugarcoat it when Block cut its workforce from 10,000 to fewer than 6,000 people earlier this year. His statement was unusually direct. This is not driven by financial difficulty, but by the growing capability of AI tools to perform a wider range of tasks.

Not financial difficulty. Not poor performance. AI capability.

And here's what I want you to understand about that. The roles that got eliminated weren't filled by people who were failing. They were filled by people who were doing exactly what they were hired to do. The problem is that what they were hired to do became something a tool could replicate. The coordination. The reporting. The information flow. The status updates. All of it automated.

Now think about the moments you've been counting this week. The times someone came to you for your read on a situation. The strategy conversations. The judgment calls. Can a tool replicate that? Can an AI model pull from your specific decade of experience in your specific industry with your specific network and give the same answer you gave?

No. It cannot.

That's your moat. That's the part of your value that is genuinely irreplaceable. And here's my honest belief about where all of this is heading. Yes, this first wave of cuts is real and companies are making big moves right now because they can. But I believe the market will self-correct. AI is expensive to implement and maintain. The human component, the judgment, the relationships, the contextual wisdom, is something companies will eventually realize they overcorrected on. We are moving toward a world where the professionals who leveraged AI as a tool came out ahead. Not the ones who got replaced by it.

But right now, in this first wave, the window to build is open. And the professionals who are building their expertise into something the market can access directly are the ones who will have options on the other side of this, regardless of how it shakes out.

Keep counting your advisory moments. By Friday, I want you to have a number and a question. We're going to use both.

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Jay Britton Preparation × Discipline = Compound Interest