Don't Trivialize Reskilling
Reskilling tends to be thought of as "learning how to use ChatGPT," but that's not differentiation. What's truly needed is how to redesign your career's strengths on the premise of AI.
4 "Foundation Skills" Everyone Needs
1. Prompting Power (Designing Instructions)
The power to convey purpose, constraints, and deliverables in a structured way. The fastest way to learn: "try the same work with 5 different instructions and compare results."
2. Critical Thinking (Output Verification)
The power not to swallow AI output but verify it with primary sources, logic, ethics. Essential for both hallucination countermeasures and strengthening judgment.
3. Data Literacy
The power to read tables/charts/statistics and give AI additional instructions. Basics like "difference between mean and median," "look at distribution," "correlation ≠ causation" are enough.
