23/01/2026
A student told me he wants to “start an AI company.”
Cool. Then I asked one question:
“What do you actually know about AI?”
Silence.
Right now, AI is a gold rush. And gold rushes don’t make most people rich- they make most people confused, broke, and late.
If you want to win in this era, stop chasing the trend.
Start stacking real, paid skills.
Pick one lane:
learn to use AI to solve a real problem
get good enough that someone pays you
then build from there
Trends expire. Skills compound.
Question: What skill are you building this month that someone would actually pay fo