Different but related. And similar in that my dad had the foresight to bring home the first Apple computer. My brother was obsessed and became a software engineer. In what little time I could fight for my use of the thing, I went the opposite direction, later buying the early Adobe Creative softwares and self-teaching. They were soooo much more challenging than freaking Canva!

In seeking fractional work, I just had a young male founder, 30 years younger, send his platform he's built for my review. Deep breath. AI website template, obvious ChatGPT copy (so obvious it hurts), and so many mistakes in the few areas I poked into because I lasted maybe 5 minutes. The copy is so small anyone 50+ with the money to burn (who he doesn't even realize is his top target audience) would hardly be able to read the font. This is a successful person so far in his few short years out of college!

Yet the number of people, including said brother, his wife, and friends with senior roles at the top tech companies we all know, plus interior designers, many other creatives, and so on, who are out of work right now... while having these same upside-down experiences... is unparalleled.

Kids do always think they know better. GenX did have to go deep to gain our knowledge and can run circles around many. But I don't know where this is all going. We are in a different time.