The two skills that matter most right now, especially with AI and how competitive everything got: reading and writing. Look around. Almost nobody reads. Put a long piece in front of them with ideas, a narrative, some soul, a lived experience, and they immediately want the summary. They ask Grok to crush it. They don’t want the human experience. They want the lifeless extract that leaves no mark. I looked into this myself. It’s a marker of mental decline. Attention is already wrecked by short clips, addictive apps, doomscrolling. If you can’t absorb a human experience, you can’t generate one. You can’t give what you don’t have. You won’t speak well. You won’t write well. You won’t direct agents well, deal with people well, say what you actually think, or make anything that stands out. Copy a method for using agents and you copied a method. Understand something from an actual life and you can invent. That’s the difference. Read whatever you want. Literature, history, philosophy, anything. The more range your mind has, the more imagination you have. The more imagination, the more you can actually make something great with agents instead of running someone else’s workflow. Read. Learn. Talk. Write. Share. That’s the sweetness of the human experience. No AI replaces that.