[Demis] Hassabis [CEO of Google’s DeepMind, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry 2024] highlighted the requirement for “meta-skills,” such as comprehending how to find out and optimizing one’s strategy to new subjects, alongside standard techniques like math, scientific research and liberal arts.– AP 2025 – 09 – 12
In the third container I went over a conversation I had with a senior Human Resources executive at a large firm in 2016 He kept in mind that when it pertains to handling individuals and their talents, there are three containers. 2 of these are easy to fill, while the third is the genuine difficulty:
1 Tools
2 Abilities
3 Meta-Competencies:
— Discovering just how to Discover (e.g. PKMastery
— Operating In Digital Networks (e.g. Continuous Beta
Later I observed that soft abilities are permanent skills and they are more difficult to establish than the hard abilities commonly demanded by magnate. I ended that soft skills are human skills. They separate humans from equipments. For the previous a number of centuries we have utilized human labour to do what machines can not. First the equipments overtook us, and exceeded human beings, with their strength. Now they are surpassing us with their brute knowledge. There is not much extra need for machine-like human work which is routine, standardized, or brute.
This is why I am continuing to offer and boost the individual knowledge mastery workshop Its focus is human knowledge, not artificial intelligence. This 6 week on the internet workshop remains to straighten people, work, and learning. It is based upon + 20 years of research and practice and emphasizes discovering in communities and networks.
The next workshop begins on 6 October 2025