Snow is dumping outside while I write this post. Today I listened to a really interesting podcast episode (shared by a colleague!) about the future of the creative industry, and society in general. It’s from the “Invest Like the Best” podcast with Patrick O'Shaughnessy. In this particular episode he’s chatting with Scott Belsky, co-founder and CEO of Behance. Belsky was also an early stage angel investor in companies like Pinterest and Uber, and he has a lot of interesting perspectives on the future when it comes to creative success.

One of my favorite takeaways is that we can no longer rely on software skills alone. Kids are being taught Adobe programs in school to enhance their history reports, and they will enter the workforce with these tools as supplementary, not primary, skills. According to Belsky, “There's the next generation of creativity that we need to enable, and it sounds cheesy, but for the future of humanity, we kind of have to train people up to do stuff that's different and differentiating than computers.”

So how do we keep standing out and apart from the masses, from computers, from each other? It’s going to take a lot of innovation and perseverance. But with the world gunning to come out of covid in the next year or so, creatives may be perfectly poised to take advantage of the surge that is sure to follow.

Listen to the full episode here!

https://www.joincolossus.com/episodes/67001654/belsky-focus-on-the-first-mile

Taken one evening in Vermont. Has nothing to do with this post, but it’s calming and pretty to look at :)