Issue #123 - Unsavory Conversations

January 11, 2026
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In This Issue

  • What Caught My Attention This Week
    • The era of ‘learn once, work forever’ is over.
    • OpenAI indeed moves first steps to become a healthcare provider.
    • Morgan Stanley forecasts 10% jobs cut in the financial services industry by 2030
  • A Chart to Look Smart
    • AI and the Baumol effect.
  • The Tools of the Trade
    • OpenCode offers the most intelligent AI agent in the world for (almost) free.
  • The Way We Work Now
    • Walmart to sell on Gemini and ChatGPT.
  • How Do You Feel?
    • Head of Instagram: You can’t trust your eyes to tell you what’s real anymore.

What Caught My Attention This Week

The era of ‘learn once, work forever’ is over

Hemant Taneja, CEO of the VC firm General Catalyst, answering a question during a CES 2026 podcast:

This idea that we spend 22 years learning and then we spend 40 years working is a broken idea, if the learning of technology and the development of technology is going to be so dynamic.

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