Human judgment is becoming both our scarcest resource and our greatest advantage in the age of AI. Welcome to the premiere of the Gather Signal — the same podcast you know, rebranded and now on video. This episode: the erosion of tech literacy as AI makes computing more abstract, and why re-learning to "speak computer" matters for privacy, ownership, and intellectual resilience. We get into enshittification, the pattern where platforms hook us with convenience, lock us in, then slowly degrade the experience, and ask whether AI is heading down the same road (and why open-source and local tools might matter more than they seem). Naturally there are a few hot takes on LinkedIn, the internet's most exhausting network and somehow still the best place to reach a B2B audience. And we tackle judgment fatigue: AI can turn three paragraphs into three pages in seconds, but someone still has to decide what is worth reading. The takeaway: AI is not the advantage anymore. Everyone has the same models. The edge is how you use it, your taste, your workflows, your relationships, and the small custom tools that make your work unmistakably yours.
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