The day I realised that the way I did everything was obsolete

Earlier this year, around February, I went onto Twitter.

You know how Twitter is. People talking about stuff they've done and built. Humble bragging. The interesting, the profound and the hyped up, all in one feed.

But this time it really sunk in. The way I did everything was obsolete.

I've said that many times since, and I mean all of it. Every way I had ever done anything was now up for debate and up for grabs. Nothing was safe, nothing was sacred. Everything was up to be reconsidered.

That is a hard thing to accept when you've spent years getting good at how you work. Your process is the thing you trust. It's what got you here. A lot of us have tied our identity to it.

I'm comfortable in that space, though. When I dropped out of school and started the design thing, I had to leave what I was familiar with, embrace something new and start from scratch. I follow my intuition. I know that very well. So when it told me everything had changed, I was eager to overhaul everything.

And I did. In the space of a couple of months, the way I work became completely different. Today, everything I used to do before, I do agentically. Decks. Documents. Websites. Platforms. The only thing I might still do myself is design a logo, maybe.

So if you're still holding on to the way you've always done it, that's the first thing to put on the table. Your craft can stay. Your assumptions about how the craft gets done have to go up for review with everything else.

The tools will keep changing. What decides whether you keep up is whether you're willing to reconsider everything, including the parts you're proudest of.

These notes are the core ideas I've had to learn to make that shift: from the way you've done things before, to the way things are now, and to what comes next.