Skills for the Ask Era

Some say we are moving from information scarcity to information abundance. My view is that this transition has already happened.

What has changed with GenAI is the interaction model.

The previous model with search engines and knowledge bases was: search, filter, read, then synthesize. Now it’s: ask, receive a synthesized answer, then refine through conversation.

This is quite a shift in cognitive work.

Now you essentially have a conversation with the sum of human knowledge.

We’re moving from “search and synthesize” to “ask and evaluate.”

The true bottleneck now is the quality of your questions and your ability to recognize what is good.