Open Residency Dan Koe - How To Get Ahead Of 99% Of People in 2026
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Dec 30, 2025 
Join writer and entrepreneur Dan Koe as he explores future-proof skills essential for success in an AI-driven world. He emphasizes the importance of adaptability through learning to think and earn, rather than just specializing. Koe discusses the significance of taste, narrative, and trust as competitive advantages, and how creators can turn their unique perspectives into thriving personal brands. He also shares insights on avoiding burnout, crafting impactful stories, and the promising potential of cohort-based models to enhance community learning.
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Future-Proof Skill Stack
- The future-proof skill stack is learning how to learn, think, and earn through marketing, sales, writing, and speaking.
- Merge creative craft with business skills to build leverage and distribution in the marketplace.
Generalists Choose Goals, Not Jobs
- A generalist chooses their own goal and learns whatever is necessary to achieve it rather than acquiring a skill to fit in.
- That flexibility prevents getting stuck chasing status or externally assigned paths.
Taste, Narrative, Trust As Moats
- Taste, signal, narrative, and trust are durable moats in an uncertain future.
- Narrative matters because humans make sense of the world through stories and derive meaning from them.