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Why Storytelling Is Now the Most Valuable Skill in Tech
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A Personal Story: Galloway's Mother and the Typist Analogy
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The abstract principle takes on emotional weight when Galloway grounds it in his own family history. His mother was a typist at a time when 98% of that profession was being automated away by personal computers. Rather than clinging to the mechanical skill, she moved upstream: she became a personal assistant, mastering the hard, relational, judgment-heavy part of supporting her boss [1] — Scott Galloway "98% of typists disappeared during the 1980s as computers arrived. Scott Galloway's mother survived by moving upstream — from typing to mana…" 04:50 . Typing remained part of her job — just an increasingly small part. The lesson Galloway draws is direct: writing is undergoing the same structural shift today. The people who survive are the ones who stop competing on word production and start competing on judgment, narrative, and emotional resonance — the parts that were always the real job.
Galloway confesses to occasionally writing after a drink or two — and finding the work grips better because it removes filters and lets emotion through. AI is the opposite: it optimizes for pattern-matching and produces a regression to the mean. People don't read average.
