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The MBA was built to teach business theory. AI has made theory table stakes. The scarce skill now is decision competence under uncertainty — and it only forms in one place: contact with real decisions.
Naval Ravikant said the universe is a single player game. Most people are playing it like a multiplayer one. The confusion is the source of almost all unnecessary suffering.
The entire corporate hierarchy was built to solve one problem: coordination. AI is solving that problem faster and cheaper than any org chart ever did. Which means the premium we attached to headcount management is migrating — back to the people who actually build things.
Everything essential about business — accounting, corporate finance, valuation, marketing strategy — taught the way business school should have taught it. No jargon for its own sake. No textbook padding. Just the frameworks that actually matter.
Every AI company is racing to build a better copilot. There's a different business sitting right in front of them — and it's worth an order of magnitude more.
The old moats are drying up. Features get copied overnight. Prices race to zero. Distribution gets disrupted by agents. This is a field guide to the three new battlegrounds that actually determine who wins.
The Bhagavad Gita has a teaching for the creator who is quietly drowning in someone else's highlight reel. It was written 5,000 years before the algorithm existed. It has never been more necessary.
A business school dean says AI makes the MBA more necessary. I left a top program two semesters in. Here is what my experience actually says about where judgment forms.
You are evaluated on your thinking. Your thinking is invisible until it's written. Most engineers and PMs are excellent thinkers who write in ways that hide exactly what makes them good.
You're making money. But do you actually understand where it goes? A practical walkthrough of accounting from DEALER to the three financial statements — built around a creator's real numbers.
The world keeps telling you to specialize. Here's why the people who didn't are the ones changing everything.
The MBA was built for a world that no longer exists. The Business Engineer is what comes next.
You produce the leverage. The ownership stays with them. That's the deal most knowledge workers signed without reading the fine print.
The Bhagavad Gita's most uncomfortable teaching — and the one that explains everything about why we're so anxious, so stuck, and so unable to do our best work.