i think the most important thing young people can do for their professional futures is build real, physical networks of people they have met and interacted with in person.
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it's very easy and cheap to create fake digital bullshit and very expensive/impossible to weed it out. so the thing that is going to have ongoing real value is the non-digital, and that includes networks of real people that you've met in person. do stuff in physical space with physical things and physical people, because the digital as we know it is going away.
the major long-term impact of the existence of generative AI is going to be the total collapse of trust in digital spaces. we're already seeing it now: Reddit comments, unsolicited e-mails, photographs, videos, replies, job postings, job applications, even phone calls. we don't trust them anymore, and that mistrust is going to intensify to include transactions, shopping, travel planning, maps, ratings, and on and on.