AI or Super Intelligence, referred to here as Intelligence, is the newest addition to the everyday lexicon and the current ethos of every industry. A new frontier. I’ve worked in education, edtech, and now as a freelancer. I’d like to offer readers a thought: get curious.

I first delved into this technology in November of 2024. It started as a way to spend Thanksgiving break with a friend. Discovering. Learning. It reminded me of the MySpace page days-going into the HTML and making changes I hoped would add color and sparkle. I was discovering how to create full apps. I was learning to use my words to be a carpenter in a landscape I had little confidence in. I became a new type of creator.

That was two years ago. Today, my first site looks like it was made in the early 2000s. I’m fine with that. That difference shows progress is being made. Progress by companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic. Progress in my understanding and my curiosity to keep going.

As a former school principal, there was so much fear, frustration, and reluctance around Intelligence. From a teacher’s perspective, I empathize with the battle between wanting to shape minds and wanting to equip students with resources. As the principal, I experienced a sisyphean list of tasks and decisions that were unrealistic for one individual to manage. That same load existed for each of my staff. This reality meant less room for creative thinking, for dynamic teaching, and for expansive thought leadership.

Individuals, beyond the educational ecosystem, are battling a similar cycle of resistance, stagnation, or surface-level use of Intelligence. On both fronts, the result is the same: no one is winning by participating casually or by not participating at all. We are witnessing a new frontier comparable only to the economic transformation of the Gilded Age. There is a new technological world offering compounding opportunities at the cost of $20 per month or less, open to all.

I’ve heard many arguments against Intelligence. The depletion of resources. The impact on the development of the younger generation’s intellectual abilities. The possibility that we can be destroyed by our own technology. In sum…so what? Stay with me. For years, man has been the creator of innovations that help and harm. For example, the car. Terrible for the environment. I don’t even own one! It enables a lifestyle that does not promote health for the individual, ultimately alters the geography, creating less welcoming, community-centered neighborhoods. Yet, as a reader, how many cars do you own? Would you give them up? No, because cars provide a service, status, and opportunity.

The common educational system has been marginally successful at creating thinkers and innovators. Accomplished innovators are shaped by opportunities outside of school and tend to find little value in traditional school. School is a common place to reinforce and train social behaviors. The intellect of the youth starts with the parents. Often, well-intentioned parents “raise children,” operating out of fear and a duty of protection, instead of preparing and equipping budding adults. If the goal is to ensure your offspring becomes an independent individual capable of x, y, z, the parenting actions should promote independent opportunities. An individual expected to do laundry and cook for themself does not attain the skill with a parent doing it for them. Practice makes you proficient, watching makes you a watcher. The fear of the magnitude of Intelligence can be real, acknowledged, and deemed valid. Allowing this fear to stunt the bloom of curiosity and active participation cannot be tolerated.

Increased Intelligence use within companies has resulted in reduced human employment. While this feels uncomfortable, it is practical.

Imagine you own a company and there are two options: you can employ Josh at $210,000 per year or employ an Intelligence agent. The agent will do his job for pennies, continue to learn, expand its capacity, keep consistent work output standards, and work from anywhere, always. Corporations aren’t run on emotions. They run on the logic of efficiency.

As humans we can consider morality, but there is the same enterprising opportunity available to you. If you can’t beat the system, get curious.

Starting with the Intelligence available is an advantage to the beginner. You don’t have to fire Josh, you never need to hire him. There is an opportunity to develop a framework for an Intelligence-scaled enterprise company. Unlike existing corporate giants, newer companies do not need to backtrack to integrate– it’s their foundation. In this frontier, the price of admission is what you are literally already paying for data. Get Curious.

Often I think of all the independent shops without websites or up-to-date socials, whose businesses struggle to be visible. The overworked entrepreneur. I want them to apply curiosity to their business model. Apply Intelligence. Business, technology, and information are no longer exclusionary spaces. This is the most inclusive creative era humans have ever lived in. The Roaring ‘20s of the millennium! We don’t need to be strong to survive. We need to be curious, persistent users of intelligence to thrive.