Hey friends,

Here is something I have been thinking about over my coffee lately.

Humans are problem solvers. That is not just something nice to say. That is literally what we are. It is why we are here. We found ways to solve problems, and then we kept finding ways to solve more problems. That is the entire story of human civilization in one sentence.

And here is the thing. Dyslexic thinkers have always been especially good at this. Not despite the way our brains work. Because of it.

We see things from different angles. We find patterns in the mess. We do not get locked into one way of looking at a problem.

That is not a workaround. That is an advantage.

We talked about this in Edition 327 when we reframed dyslexia as a brain budget. Your brain has finite processing power and it distributes that power differently. More goes toward pattern recognition and big-picture thinking. Less goes toward the symbolic stuff. That allocation is what makes us natural problem solvers.

So what happens when the problems start getting solved?

Right now, AI tools are being pointed at the biggest questions we have ever asked.

DeepMind already cracked protein folding. That is a problem scientists spent decades on. We are starting to apply serious computing power to physics, chemistry, climate, and medicine. The hard problems that seemed unsolvable are starting to move.

And we are just getting started.

With quantum computing coming online and AI agents that can work on their own, we are entering an era where the tools we are building might actually solve problems at a scale no human ever could alone.

In Edition 328 we talked about Matt Shumer's warning that AI is accelerating faster than anyone expected. He was talking about jobs. I want to talk about something bigger.

Yes, AI is going to replace roles. We hear about that every day.

Here is what I think actually happens. The people who know their field AND know how to use AI will have an edge. For a while. Then the AI-native generation comes in. They do not have the years of subject matter expertise, but by the time they arrive, the tools will have it built in.

So the advantage shifts. And then it shifts again.

The people who will always have an edge are the ones who know how to think differently. Who can ask the right questions. Who can find the angle nobody else saw.

Sound familiar?

In Edition 329 we built a Single Source of Truth to stop AI from hallucinating. That was a tactical skill. This is about something deeper. The ability to see what matters when the noise clears.

What do we do when AI has solved all of the big problems?

When we have abundance. Automated systems. Robots handling the routine. When a global knowledge layer gives everyone on earth instant access to all human knowledge.

Imagine Starlink, but not for the internet. For everything we know. Available to anyone. Anywhere.

What does a brain built for problem solving do when the problems are gone?

I do not have the full answer yet. But I know this much.

The answer is not going to come from the people who followed the standard path. The people who learned to do things one way and kept doing it. The people whose strength was executing the known playbook.

The answer will come from the people who have spent their whole lives finding unconventional paths. Building workarounds. Seeing what others could not see. Asking questions nobody else thought to ask.

That is us.

Every time you found a different way to solve a problem because the "normal" way did not work for your brain, you were training for this moment. Every workaround you built. Every time you saw the pattern before anyone else in the room. Every time someone told you that you were doing it wrong and you turned out to be doing it differently.

That is the skill. And it is the one skill AI cannot replicate.

AI can solve known problems faster than any human. It can optimize, analyze, and execute at a scale we cannot match.

But deciding what to solve next? That takes a brain that sees differently. That takes us.

I want to be honest with you. This edition is the beginning of a bigger idea, not the end of one.

Over the last few weeks we have covered a lot of ground. The brain budget reframe. The Shumer wake-up call. The Single Source of Truth. Each one was a building block.

This is the question all of those blocks are building toward.

I will go deeper into this in a future white paper. The philosophical picture of what happens when AI solves the execution problems and the only thing left is vision, creativity, and the ability to see what nobody else sees.

But before I do, I want to hear from you.

We did not survive by fitting in. We survived by solving things.

The tools are getting bigger. The problems are getting bigger. And the question is shifting.

It is no longer can you solve this.

It is can you see what is worth solving.

That is a question dyslexic thinkers have been training for their whole lives.

Does this resonate? What do you think we do when the problems are solved? Hit reply and let me know. I read every one.

Matt "Coach" Ivey

Founder, LM Lab AI  |  Creator, Dyslexic AI

(Dictated, not typed. Obviously.)

🧠 Us: Humans are problem solvers. Dyslexic thinkers are especially good at it because of how our brain budget is distributed.

🌍 AI: AI is solving the biggest problems in science, medicine, and engineering. Protein folding is done. Climate and physics are next.

💼 Jobs: Subject matter experts plus AI will win first. Then AI-native workers arrive. The lasting edge belongs to people who think differently.

❓ The Question: What does a brain built for problem solving do when the problems are solved? The answer will come from unconventional thinkers.

🚀 The Point: The question is no longer "can you solve this." It is "can you see what is worth solving." We have been training for that our whole lives.

This edition builds on Edition 327 ("Not a Disorder. Not a Gift. A Pattern."), Edition 328 ("The World Just Woke Up."), and Edition 329 ("Building Your Second Brain."). If you are new here, start with 327.