Sep 5, 2026 · 40 min · 13 segments
Most companies say they hire for character. Then they let a résumé decide who gets through the door. What talent are they missing? In EP19 of The 1000-Day CEO, Bill Canady sits down with JR Butler…
J.R. ButlerGuest
Bill CanadyHost
As AI absorbs more work across the world, it's eating us all in good and bad ways.
I'm very good at Claude, right? So I think like anything related, anything actually, this is the way I think about it.
Anything that's like exclusively done between your computer chair, and your computer screen, like tactically, like work, knowledge-based work, that is going to, it's, it's, it's already lessened in value.
I think that's going to continue to lessen because the thing I don't think people understand is like, dude, we're like two and a half years into this thing and it is
Like I say, holy shit in this office, like six times a day when I use it, I'm like, holy shit.
However, there are, there are things that the value is going up and it's going up at a pace at the same time, the value is going down on this.
Like your ability to critically think and have ideas like your own ideas is super, super important because if we're all getting the same information, the way that we translate that information becomes super important.
Again, that goes back to like why liberal arts, I think is going to get more and more valuable because you learn how to learn and you learn how to critically think.
The second thing that I think goes way up is your ability to communicate those ideas and communicate the information that now you're getting out of a robot or a machine.
It means written communication because AI is going to continue to get better at writing.
But again, if you're not injecting your human ideas, at the end of the day, AI is commoditizing common opinion.
You know what I mean? So your ability to be dissentive out of that information and then communicate that descent, super duper important.
And like part of communication is influencing and motivating the person sitting across from you, right? That's when you know you're good at it.
As AI absorbs more work across the world, it's eating us all in good and bad ways.
I'm very good at Claude, right? So I think like anything related, anything actually, this is the way I think about it.
Anything that's like exclusively done between your computer chair, and your computer screen, like tactically, like work, knowledge-based work, that is going to, it's, it's, it's already lessened in value.
I think that's going to continue to lessen because the thing I don't think people understand is like, dude, we're like two and a half years into this thing and it is
Like I say, holy shit in this office, like six times a day when I use it, I'm like, holy shit.
However, there are, there are things that the value is going up and it's going up at a pace at the same time, the value is going down on this.
Like your ability to critically think and have ideas like your own ideas is super, super important because if we're all getting the same information, the way that we translate that information becomes super important.
Again, that goes back to like why liberal arts, I think is going to get more and more valuable because you learn how to learn and you learn how to critically think.
The second thing that I think goes way up is your ability to communicate those ideas and communicate the information that now you're getting out of a robot or a machine.
It means written communication because AI is going to continue to get better at writing.
But again, if you're not injecting your human ideas, at the end of the day, AI is commoditizing common opinion.
You know what I mean? So your ability to be dissentive out of that information and then communicate that descent, super duper important.
And like part of communication is influencing and motivating the person sitting across from you, right? That's when you know you're good at it.
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