Bet On Humanity

Author: David Perell URL: https://www.perell.com/blog/humanity One-line: As Automation commoditizes abundance, the new scarce resources are discovery, curation, and humanity — the human touch, not the catalog, becomes the differentiator.

Key claims

• The future of work won’t return as stable jobs. Per Eric Weinstein, opportunities will be many and lavishly rewarded for a few creatives, but “deeply troubling for a majority who depend on stable and cyclical work.”
• Abundance isn’t worth much without a human touch. Apple Music’s 45-million-song catalog needs human curation to matter.
• The new scarce resources are discovery, curation, and humanity. When everything is abundant, “humanity will” be the critical point of differentiation — not playlists.

Notable quotes

“The opportunities of the future should be many and lavishly rewarded, but it is unlikely that they will ever return in the form of stable jobs… This is great news for a tiny number of creatives of today, but deeply troubling for a majority who depend on stable and cyclical work to feed families.” — Eric Weinstein

“The new scarce resources are discovery, curation, and humanity.”

How it connects

• Automation — the backdrop: as machines handle abundance, human judgment becomes scarce.
• Eric Weinstein — the framing on the future of work.
• Naked Brands- The Future of Music — the same “human curation is the durable moat” theme applied to music.