"As AI handles more of what's on a job description, the only thing that can't be abstracted away is whether people want to be in a room with you when things get hard. That's the skill worth building. "
Being the person people call when sh*t hits the fan will be more and more valuable as time goes by.
EQ > IQ
Do you agree with me and Shan?
Jonah's filters work because they're measuring the one thing AI can't commoditize
The internet made knowledge worthless almost overnight. Google turned recall from a skill into a commodity, and most people barely noticed it happening.
AI is doing the same thing to intelligence. Being able to reason through a hard problem used to be a real competitive edge, and that gap is closing faster than most people want to admit.
What holds through both shifts is EQ. Not the vague soft skills version of it, but whether people feel heard when they talk to you, whether they'd call you when something goes wrong, whether they'd take a meeting just to stay in your orbit.
That's what these two filters are actually screening for. Response behavior tells you how someone handles a stranger asking for their time, which is the same muscle as a deadline or a hard conversation. The money question tells you if they can sit with failure in front of someone who matters. Both are EQ tests in disguise.
As AI handles more of what's on a job description, the only thing that can't be abstracted away is whether people want to be in a room with you when things get hard.
That's the skill worth building.