Fran's Notes

We're obsessed with inventing new things. But the real shift isn't about building something that's never existed before.

It's about orchestrating what already exists into something you'd actually trust.

In a few years, you won't be doing everything yourself. You'll manage a squad of AI agents that do it for you. That's not science fiction. That's just delegation with better tools.

The companies that win won't be the ones with the most employees. They'll be smaller, leaner, with higher revenue per person. Because they figured out what to hand off and what to keep.

Right now, AI is messy. It's a monkey with a machine gun. It makes terrible decisions half the time. But that's not the point.

The point is we're learning what autonomy looks like. What trust looks like. What "good enough to let it run" looks like.

You don't need to invent the future. You just need to arrange what's already here into something useful.

Intelligence just became a commodity.

Writing code? AI does that. Complex math? AI does that. Building features, writing content, solving problems? All of it. Cheap. Abundant. Available to anyone.

So here's the uncomfortable question: what are you worth now?

Here's what I see coming. Two types of professionals. The sovereign engineer who orchestrates a squad of AI agents, building things 10x bigger than they could alone. And the person who can't figure out how to incorporate AI into their work, who ends up taking orders from the system instead of giving them.

The gap between these two? Massive. Not a small advantage. A completely different league.

Because the demand for intelligence is infinite. But now anyone can access it. What's scarce isn't the intelligence. It's knowing what to do with it.

The professionals who figure out orchestration will have an unfair advantage. The ones who don't will wonder why they're suddenly obsolete.

You either manage the agents, or you work for them.

Pick one.

Sooner or later, we're all going to face a problem. Most problems change your plans—that's why they're annoying. They make you do things you don't want to do or don't feel comfortable doing.

Here's the thing: problems don't care about you. They don't show up just for you. You were simply in the way. So there's no reason to take it personally.

That's why the sooner we start accepting the problem, the sooner we can fix it.

If a light bulb burns out, you just order a new one and replace it the next day. No drama.

But if the wind breaks your fence and you need to call someone to fix it and pay for it, it'll likely take you days or even a couple of weeks to blame the wind and curse your rusty fence before you actually ask for a quote.

Either way, it wasn't about you. You were just in the way of the problem.

Your urgency is your responsibility. Not someone else's.

Equally, someone else's urgency is not your responsibility.

Urgent matters pull you away from your focus, they become your priority, so by taking someone else's urgency you are taking away your own focus and replacing your priorities with someone else's.

Now, something smart is to align your priorities, I mean your urgency, with others. This could be your partner, your colleagues, your friends. But this alignment should be done consciously, not by taking away your focus and priorities.

However, there are times where you cannot simply align priorities or they are simply incompatible. Then it's time to make a choice.

Would you live according to your own urgency or someone else's?