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“If you’re worried about your skills becoming obsolete, this book may be your saving grace. Matt Beane has spent his career studying how to gain and maintain expertise as technology evolves, and his analysis is both engrossing and edifying.”
“There has never been a more important time for this book— nor anyone more qualified to explain what it all means than Matt Beane. The Skill Code teaches urgent lessons.”
From one of the world’s top researchers on work and technology comes an insightful and surprising guide to protecting your skill in a world filling with AI and robots.
Whatever your job – plumber, attorney, teacher, surgeon – decades of research show that you achieved mastery by working with someone who knew more than you did. Formal learning—school and books—gave you conceptual knowledge, but you developed your skill by working with an expert.
Think of your most valuable skill, the thing you can reliably do under pressure to deliver results. How did you learn it?
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“Beane shows us the true human-centered approach to AI advancements and how we must act now to achieve the next generation of human skills coupled with the productivity gains from AI.”
“If you’re worried about your skills becoming obsolete, this book may be your saving grace. Matt Beane has spent his career studying how to gain and maintain expertise as technology evolves, and his analysis is both engrossing and edifying.”
“Beane delivers an essential, meticulously researched road map for combining intelligent technologies with the way humans have built skill for thousands of years to reach our brightest possible future.”
“With riveting stories, The Skill Code offers a timeless recipe for skill development and thriving at work in the age of AI.”
“Matt’s decades-long curiosity about human work positions him perfectly to offer such a thoughtful and well-researched guide to skill development in this age of generative AI.”
“There has never been a more important time for this book— nor anyone more qualified to explain what it all means than Matt Beane. The Skill Code teaches urgent lessons.”
“With academic rigor and actionable insights, Matt’s watershed book offers a new approach to skill development that aligns the age-old realities of expert-novice collaboration with the innovative potential of intelligent tools.”
“In this vital book, Beane focuses us on an immediate, hidden concern: that today’s powerful technologies give people fewer opportunities to learn as they try to master a difficult craft.”
“The Skill Code is a compelling reminder of the timeless importance of human guidance in an increasingly automated world.”
“Matt Beane’s The Skill Code is a rollicking read, it’s magnificently researched, and, above all, a relentlessly useful and timely playbook.”
He has published in top management journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly and Harvard Business Review, and spoken on the Ted stage. He also took a two-year hiatus from his doctoral studies to help found and fund Humatics, an MIT-connected, full-stack IoT startup. Beane is an Assistant Professor in the Technology Management Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Digital Fellow with Stanford’s Digital Economy Lab and MIT’s Institute for the Digital Economy. He received his PhD from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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