I’m busy thumbing this email while on the last train back home.
If it sends, it sends. The signal is meh.
I had a catch up with a friend who I’ve not seen in forever.
We shot the shit, had a few espresso martini’s, did some people watching and mused on the state of the world.
We both came to the conclusion that the hyper acceleration of artificial everything is going to lobotomise society.
We’ve predicted that 2026 is going to be filled with the biggest gap of fake versus real we’ve ever seen.
It doesn’t matter what space you operate in, it’s going to be monumental and so far his and mines predictions since 2019 have all come true.
But here’s the short and sweet fix to it all…
Connection. Genuine, fun, friendly and intimate connection.
That is how we don’t get sucked into the world of fakery and bullshit.
While everyone is trying to automate their lives with AI. If you drill down into being an actual human…
You’ll be leaps and bounds ahead. Funny thing I witnessed over this last year too is, that everyone who has peddled some AI “thing” in their offers, have truly not given a rats ass about the person who buys it. They’re only in it for their own profits.
Profits of people? Not my gig.
So keep this in mind as we roll into 2026.
Connection will be the new commodity and if you can handle that. Everything will be golden.
Figure out how to make that human element stronger in what you do and you’ll wipe the floor with these AI nerds wanting to squeeze every buck out of everyone.
Stephen Walker.