Week 8 · 2026 · Post

Years of Excel skill, quietly made optional

Spent years getting really good at Excel. Like, genuinely good - it was one of the things that set me apart early in career.

Now I do the same analytical work through Claude in minutes ☕

The skill just... quietly stopped mattering. No one pitched me on it, no vendor demo - I just stopped opening the app.

Anyone else feeling a specific skill from earlier career becoming optional?

Not from abundant AI marketing - from actually using it daily?

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