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Published · transcript-backedMax Schoening: belief
3 May 2026 Lenny's Podcast Why cultivating agency matters more than cultivating skills in the AI era | Max Schoening (Head of Product, Notion)
“Just to be clear, not everybody has that luck, but I think that's the folks that I find discussing this the most are the ones that are in the bucket of luck.”
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- Max Schoening
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- 3 May 2026
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…People have always joked, we get paid so much just to sit in front of a computer and put the right sorts of words and letters into this thing and we get paid a lot of money to do it. And now it's like, oh shit, maybe I won't be paid this much in the future because AI is going to be taking over. And so your take there is just like, this is a pretty sweet gig we already got. Enjoy this UBI. Yes. I think all things considered, how lucky are we? I don't know. I'm sitting in an air-conditioned room right now talking to you, having a good time. I don't know. Yeah. Just to be clear, not everybody has that luck, but I think that's the folks that I find discussing this the most are the ones that are in the bucket of luck. Say we have AGI, you don't have to work, you could just do anything. What would you be spending your time doing?…
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