Happy new year! I took the last two weeks completely off to focus on health and family. I'm spending the first week of 2026 thinking about one thing: what stays scarce when intelligence becomes abundant. Here's why. We've entered the Era of Asymmetric Impact. The job-apocalypse narrative gets it backwards. AI isn't replacing humans in most knowledge work. It's raising leverage so high that your ability to steer becomes the scarcest resource on Earth. And in the long run, that