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Carl Holden

Sep 24, 2026

TomHOST
6:59
Okay.
7:00
And that AI is not going to take your job, but it will take a portion of your tasks.
7:06
And what I've been trying to teach people is for the longest time, pre-revolution, industrial revolution, they said jack of all trades, a master of nine.
7:18
And then in the 17th century, a reawakening where we were like, let's do more than just be, you know, cogs in the machine, they added to the phrase, is still better than a master of one.
7:30
So the full phrase, since the 1700s, is Jack of all trades, master of none, is still better than a master of one.
7:37
But what did society go back to doing? It cut half of that off and said...
7:43
I'd like to discourage you for being a jack-of-all-trades.

21 MINS LATER

TomHOST
28:57
Because all the other ones are thinking that there's a job there for them, too.

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