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Reid Hoffman said it a few years ago and it's only getting more true:…
Reid Hoffman said it a few years ago and it's only getting more true: influence is becoming the most important currency. Most people heard that and nodded. What almost nobody noticed is that the bottleneck has quietly shifted away from ideas and toward something far more mundane. The gap isn't who has the best thinking. It's who has a system that can actually keep up. Here's the underappreciated part. The loudest conversation in AI right now is happening between technically sophisticated people, the ones deep in Claude skills, OpenClaw, and whatever dropped this week. They're genuinely impressed by what's possible. And they should be. But they are not the market. The tens-of-millions of SMB owners and execs who need marketing results? They don't want to become prompt engineers. They want content that sounds like them, published consistently, without carving out two hours every time they have something to say. That's a completely different problem from what the technically curious are solving. This matters because products and conversations built around the technically curious minority will miss almost everyone else entirely. The real shift isn't about raw capability. It's about who bears the cognitive load. A system that captures your voice, your audience, your message architecture once, and then runs, that's what moves the needle for an exec who has an actual company to run. Not the most impressive demo. Not the newest model. Hoffman's prediction is playing out. But the currency is accumulating for the people who figured out how to show up reliably, not the ones who spent the year exploring what's theoretically possible.
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