"I don't know how to do that" used to be a pretty reasonable thing to say. Twenty years ago I bought a book called Small Business for Dummies because that was genuinely one of the only options. I read it cover to cover and figured out what I could.
That phrase doesn't have the same shelf life anymore.
I was just in Lexington with my good friend Glenn Lundy, watching high school students go through an entrepreneurship class, and it got me thinking about how different the path is now. Specifically because of AI. The gap between "I don't know how" and actually knowing how is now measured in minutes, not months.
That's a gift. But it's also a filter.
The people who are winning right now are the ones who land on "I can find out" before they even finish the sentence. And the ones who stop at "I don't know" are on a fast track to being replaced by the ones who don't.
This episode is about that shift, what it means for people building businesses and careers right now, and why the real competitive advantage isn't the tools, it's the mentality you bring to them.
In this episode: the Small Business for Dummies origin story, what Sequoia Capital is saying about AI and the future of creative work, and why "I can find out" might be the most important phrase in your vocabulary right now.
Pursue Clarity, Paul.
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