#124: Figuring Out Your Next Career Move, Personal Thesis on Why People Consume, You Are Already 'Somebody'

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This week we will take a look at how to navigate the ever-changing career landscape, the latest with agentic video editing, a personalized newspaper that prints while you sleep, and more. Let's dive in:

How to Figure Out Your Next Career Move

Cliff Maxwell published a guide on Lenny Rachitsky's newsletter which helps individuals figure out their next career move. It's built from interviews with over 1,000 people changing jobs and hundreds of coaching sessions, and the philosophy behind the guide is getting you to reconnect with what you actually want from work.

The guide is centered around six main questions:

• What kind of career progress do I want?
• What career quest am I on?
• Which work brings out my best?
• What possible moves should I explore?
• Which tradeoffs am I willing to make?

Although answering these questions is the heart of the article, it's not the main takeaway. Careers aren't 'destinations' anymore. The people who win the next decade are the ones who are able to stay ahead of the technological wave before the currently advertised job gets replaced too.

Pair this with Lenny's job board and his personal 100 companies he would work for and it serves as a great place to start for planning whatever career move comes next.

Create Your Own Thesis on Why People Consume

​Oren John says great marketing comes down to one skill: building your own thesis for why people consume and then validating it. Discussing it relentlessly in conversation and creative testing is the next step.

He says the reason most people are bad at marketing is that they trust what people say over what people do. Everyone claims they are above status and validation, but their behavior gives them away every time. Read the actions, and you start seeing the levers moving everybody.

Watch people, form a thesis, test it in content or ads, and repeat. Do that enough, and reading behavior becomes faster than guessing, which is the whole edge.

Highly encourage you to check out his full-length YouTube video on this here.

Newspaper That Prints While You Sleep

​Karen Cheng built one of the most practical physical use cases for AI that I have seen. Instead of checking her phone first thing, she set up an agent to make a physical morning newspaper. It pulls from her calendar and email while she sleeps and prints on actual paper, so the first thing she reaches for is stack of pages she personally curated.

There is something that quietly feels 'right' about it. The whole point of an agent is to do the gathering so you do not have to, and the whole problem with phones is that the gathering never ends. The idea of a feed that 'ends' is something I think more people will slowly start to gravitate towards.

Be sure to check out the template she made at newspaper.karenx.com.

Where Are We With Agentic Video Editing?

Agentic video editing has been all the rage the last couple weeks.

Here are a few of the highlights that stood out to me, as well as what we can takeaway from all this:

​Future Brian kicked off the whole discussion. He asked Astra to build fruit animations for a highlight video, asked for changes 14 times over a day and a half, and reviewed each round whenever he got back to his computer.

​Hunter Weiss pushed the same idea farther in a workflow. He has Claude with DaVinci sorting through 9 hours of footage, bucketing and pulling clips to a new timeline for 55 minutes straight. Everything that works well from the agent gets turned into a saved skill.

​Simon Høiberg drew the counterargument. "You don't really need the DaVinci MCP", he says. Just let the model run scripts and commands directly and combine it with computer use when the API falls short. The MCP gets in the way and can be limiting.

​Colin and Samir framed an important reminder for creators. Standing out on YouTube in 2026 is about having a unique POV. When production gets commoditized, differentiation on YouTube means you have something interesting to say about a topic and the taste to determine what is worthy of being said.

​Isaac Medeiros showed us the end state. He handed his whole X account to a bot with a content library, Astra frameworks, and reply access, and he is watching what it does for 30 days before giving it to a human.

The cost of production is collapsing to near zero, which means the only thing left that separates anyone is the thing Colin and Samir named. Taste and POV. The creators who win are the ones who know what good looks like and can say it out loud, because that is now the entire job.

You Are Already 'Somebody'

​DHH shared a Gary Vee clip this week that I found extremely powerful.

A recent undergraduate had a moment with Gary, where she tells him, "I know one day I'm going to be somebody, and you'll know when..." and he stops her. He tells her "You're somebody now." Her facial expression alone was enough for me to know that this moment would be one of the most transformative of her life.

Most of us carry a mental threshold for when we are allowed to take ourselves seriously. "When I hit this number", "when I get this job", "when this person notices my work", then I am somebody and I can act like it.

Everyone you admire is standing inside the same room, wondering if they belong. The permission you are waiting for does not exist, because there is no one above you qualified to grant it.

You are already somebody.

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