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The Future-Proof Skill Stack (Learn In This Order)

Dan Koe
11 min readMar 24, 2025

I’ll be honest.

I’m worried.

I’ve gone deep into the AGI and post-labor-work rabbit hole.

There’s been a few questions on my mind for the past month:

  • What can humans do that machines can’t?
  • What will the future of work look like?
  • What jobs — if any — will persist over the next 20 years?
  • What can we, as humans, do to secure an above-average future?

With these problems at the forefront of my mind, I’ve found a few answers that may bring you optimism and clarity as you enter the unknown.

I want to focus on this point that many are worried about:

We don’t know what to teach children because we don’t know what will be relevant in 20 years.

I was worried about this too until I came across a post by Devon Erikson on X that shines light on the issue.

I’ve been binging any podcast I can find of him and reading his new sci-fi fiction book, Theft Of Fire. He is easily becoming one of my favorite thinkers.

I hope one day, once I’ve burned through his work, I can hold a high-level conversation with him on a podcast to share the similarities and differences between our…

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Dan Koe
Dan Koe

Written by Dan Koe

Building Kortex, the future of writing apps. Find me everywhere @thedankoe

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