It’s 2025. Your college degree is now a nice coaster. Your ten years of “solid experience”? A good bedtime story for your kids. Age? Irrelevant. Buzzwords? Like fax machines and flip phones—dead on arrival. We are living in the future.
We’ve crossed the hiring event horizon. The old way of evaluating talent—certificates, seniority, jargon-laced résumés—is not just outdated, it’s a liability. We’re not in Kansas anymore. Heck, we’re not even on Earth. We’re hurtling through the Transformational Era, and only the curious, adaptable, and high-agency humans will survive the gravity shift.
As Sam Altman put it, the takeoff has started. And if that doesn’t give you goosebumps or a minor existential crisis, you’re either a robot—or worse, middle management.
No One Cares Where You Studied. They Care Where You’re Headed.
Let’s say it out loud: university degrees don’t mean what they used to. In a world where a chatbot can explain string theory, write a legal brief, and whip up a marketing strategy before your morning coffee cools, memorizing a textbook no longer gives you the upper hand.
Companies don’t want graduates—they want gladiators. They want people with high agency, who can take a tool, learn it in an afternoon, and do something useful with it by dinner.
They’re not hiring maps—they’re hiring explorers.
As shown in those no-nonsense hiring slides floating around the internet, here’s what doesn’t matter anymore:
- ❌ University degree
- ❌ Years of experience
- ❌ Age
- ❌ Industry experience
- ❌ Buzzword bingo
What does matter?
- ✅ Obsession.
- ✅ Curiosity.
- ✅ Adaptability.
- ✅ Experimentation.
- ✅ Action.
This isn’t a rebrand of HR trends. This is the collapse of the old cathedral—and the rise of a new temple built on fire and feedback loops.
The Forecast: Adapt or Die
Even Micha Kaufman, CEO of Fiverr—a platform built on human creativity—sounds a little shaken lately. He recently shared that developers at his company are asking each other, “Are we going to have a job in two years?”
His answer? And I’ll paraphrase:
“AI will elevate everyone’s abilities, but make no mistake that it is coming for all of our jobs. It doesn’t matter what you do. Programmer, designer, product manager, data scientist, lawyer, customer support rep, salesperson or financial analyst—AI is coming for you. Easy tasks will become no-brainers, hard tasks will become easy, and impossible tasks will become merely hard. And because AI tools are free to use, no one will have an advantage. In the shuffle, those who don’t adapt will be doomed.”
This isn’t just a warning—it’s a clarion call. The AI genie isn’t just out of the bottle. It’s updating your OS in the background while you sleep. And it doesn’t give a damn about your résumé.
Democratizing Genius (and Widening the Gap)
Here’s the paradox: AI is levelling the playing field—and splitting it in two.
Now, anyone with a laptop and curiosity can build something astonishing. The startup kid in Nairobi and the 50-year-old tinkerer in Montana both have access to the same GPTs, the same copilots, the same magic. No gatekeepers. No credentials. Just a question, a keyboard, and fire in the belly.
But that access cuts both ways. As Sam Altman reminds us, the cost of intelligence is collapsing—fast. The average person in 2035 may command more cognitive firepower than an entire think tank in 2020. But that means the only thing standing between you and irrelevance is your will to adapt.
AI won’t replace you. A person using AI will.
We’re Not Hiring for Tasks. We’re Hiring for Humans.
The job market isn’t about who can do the work. It’s about who can orchestrate the work—who can ask better questions, ride the wave, and debug the machine with one hand while prototyping the future with the other.
Companies no longer want employees who know everything. They want people who learn like lightning, build like hell, and never ask permission to lead.
They don’t want someone who read the manual.
They want the one who threw it out and built something better.
The Road Ahead: Alignment or Anarchy
This whole thing—AI, AGI, robots building datacenters that build robots—is a double-edged lightsaber. Yes, we’re about to make impossible things probable. Cure diseases. Build abundance. Colonize space. Wonderful.
But we’ve also built systems that are smarter than us in some ways, and dumber in ways that can wreck everything. We must solve the alignment problem—getting AI to move toward long-term human goals, not short-term dopamine hits.
Just look at your social media feed. That algorithm? Aligned perfectly… to destroy your attention span.
If we don’t steer this thing, it’ll steer us. And the last thing we need is a superintelligence optimized for engagement metrics.
Final Transmission from the Front Lines
I’m not scared. I’m stoked. We are watching the scaffolding of civilization morph in real time. What comes next isn’t a slight upgrade—it’s a quantum leap. And I want to be part of it. I want to build in it. I want to hire in it.
We are democratizing intelligence. We are liberating creativity. We are rediscovering what it means to be human in a world that’s suddenly supra-human.
The ones who will thrive? They won’t be the smartest. They’ll be the boldest.
So bring your fire. Bring your creativity. And for the love, leave your resume at the door.
Josh Nash 
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