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Squiggly Careers · 2026-06-03 · 11 min · 2,415 words

Creativity and the human skill AI can't replicate (Day 3) | Open to Work

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Anish, welcome to the Squiggly Crades podcast. We're on day three of our series on open to work. So so far, let's do a recap. We've covered curiosity, uh we've covered courage, and today we are going to focus on the skill of creativity. And I feel like our people are already bought into this.

People love creativity. So why why does this make the, you know, there are five capabilities that are going to help people stay ahead in the age of AI. Tell us a bit more about creativity. Yeah, there there are a few reasons I love creativity.

I love all the five Cs, but this one in particular for a few reasons. First, um, creativity is to me the imagination of what's never been. And as we think about AI and a lot of the fear of AI and its ability to do things like write really quickly or create videos really quickly, to do a lot of the technical analytic tasks, creativity has been under duress. You look to the creative professionals who are justifiably really afraid of how this tool is going to replace them. But AI is going to just make generically creative content widely, universally available.

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