Watch a number of videos. Last night, I believe, about people losing their jobs and starting like a YouTube channel and like just trying to branch out and maybe start a new career. And it was extremely sad. And I watched like two of these. And of course the feed showed me like ten more. And I ended up just watching these videos for like an hour and a half, two hours. And it was extremely sad. I feel like people are seeing the ground shift underneath their feet and
they're like, why does nobody want me? Right. This one particular one was really sad because he was like, I thought I was a good product manager. And then after ten and a half months of interviewing and getting all the way through interviews and getting to the very end, and then not being given an offer or being given an offer and then being ghosted. After ten and a half months, I no longer believe in myself. I no longer believe I'm a good product manager, and it was
just devastating to hear this and this. He was being so like, just open and honest and vulnerable. And it was just it was hard to watch and just felt very human. And this is essentially why I'm doing what I'm doing now is to basically try to. Help people who are in that situation and try to hopefully explain what I. See coming in terms of like. You shouldn't judge yourself based on what these companies think about your skills and what they think about your worth. Um, they
do not determine your worth. And this is why we need something like human 3.0 is because human 3.0 is how to measure yourself. Okay, you in your entirety. Full spectrum is how you should be thinking about yourself, not in terms of do you have these particular product management skills that this particular type of startup needs or this particular type of company needs? That is a very old
world way of thinking about things. And I don't fault anyone for thinking that way because you're trying to get a job, you're trying to pay bills, right? So I
understand that. I'm just saying that society as a whole is stuck in the past in seeing the world in this way, and we need to move beyond it, especially because AI is going to accelerate this whole process where they're going to see more and more people as expendable in this way, the same way that this guy was fired in ten and a half months later, he still can't get a job. That's going to keep happening to more and more people, and we need a solution. So.
I would say be kind to people. Everyone is hurting in some kind of way, and especially right now. And. When you look at our politics, I see a lot of the current situation as a symptom of people being hurt and people being afraid. And I think that makes people more mean and less empathic than they otherwise would be. And got this great quote here. Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see by Mark Twain.