Julien Allwood

Full-time at Wembley Stadium.

if you want to survive AI, now is the time to fight as hard as you possibly can to be a COMPLETE human... the specialist won't survive 👇🏾 Your grandfather could probably build a house, fix an engine, grow food, play piano, speak french, and tell you which way was north without checking a phone. He had skills across the spectrum of survival and craft. Slowly we told everyone to pick one thing and get really good at it. At 16 I was told to pick a career for the rest of my life... But in a world of AI, and incoming super-intelligence, this has never, ever, been worse advice. The specialist programmer? ChatGPT codes faster. The specialist writer? Claude writes cleaner. The specialist designer? Midjourney does it faster. The inconvenient truth is that the specialist won't survive. The people I am now hiring into my companies and what I want my future kids to be, are COMPLETE HUMANS. The complete human is the one who builds AND creates AND thinks AND feels across disciplines - that's the person that becomes more interesting, more rare and more valuable, as machines become more specialised. It's hard for machines to automate the weird intersection of human experiences that makes someone decide to explain a marketing campaign through jazz metaphors, design a product inspired by stoic philosophy. Your ancestors weren't specialists because they couldn't afford to be. We can't afford to be specialists because the machines are going to win that game. Fight as hard as you can, to remain a complete human! Fight the voice in your head that says successful people don't waste time painting, or dancing, or learning languages they'll never monetise. That voice is lying. The most interesting founders I know are part-time sommeliers, weekend pilots, terrible poets, decent drummers. They bring their whole weird, complete humanity to everything they touch. And that's exactly what makes them irreplaceably human 👊🏾❤️ Interested to hear about some of the weird things my community on here does to remain a complete human! Anyone wanna share?

this is probably an unexpected opinion coming from me... entrepreneurship is over-sold and self-awareness is under-sold 👇🏾 The not so popular truth is, most people would be happier with a good salary than a successful startup. But social media continues to push a generation to optimise for lives they don't actually want. Entrepreneurs like me get a lot of likes and followers when we tell people to quit their jobs and chase their dreams. But here is the context that we nearly always miss👇🏾 Entrepreneurship can be really really boring - you will have to do things you do not enjoy. You will deal with big, hard, stressful problems, every day - including bank holidays, christmas and any other time off - for years. If you're lucky enough to be successful, the problems will get bigger, not smaller. You will not have one boss. You will have hundreds - every customer, every investor, every employee. You will answer to them 24/7. You will probably work 3x the hours you do now, have 10x the stress and a tiny probability of significant success. A recent survey found 87.7% of founders deal with at least mental health issues. That's not a bug. It's a feature of entrepreneurship. You'll see your kids less. You'll probably earn less (for years, maybe forever). You will probably pay yourself last and as little as possible. You'll struggle to switch off. Forever. Your phone will probably become a prison. And here's the punchline: If you succeed, it all gets harder. More money = more complexity. More growth = more anxiety. More success = more people depending on you. In life, when you find yourself following someone else's playbook, you are at risk of winning someone else's prizes. All I'm saying is be intentional. I'm not AGAINST entrepreneurship, I'm FOR self-awareness. Truth "wealth" is probably👇🏾 ✅ Knowing what game you want to play and why ✅ Having the courage not to play other people's games ✅ Understanding your real strengths and weaknesses ✅ Designing within them, not against them Happiness is not about the structure, the social media post or the story. Happiness is about alignment. Building a life that's aligned to whoever you are! This does the beg the question, why do I do it? If I'm honest, the answer is probably....I don't know. It's probably some blend of lower t trauma, my inability to fit inside normal structures like school and conventional work-places (I was fired a few times), my adhd brain that makes working on something for 14 straight hours feel like 7 minutes and some childhood self-esteem issues. Whatever the reason, this is who I am and what works for me. This is the weird way I make myself happy and fulfilled. To someone that is not me, it would probably feel like torture. And to me, their life would probably feel like torture. And that’s the thing… when you create a life that feels like home to you, it will probably look like hell to tourists. Please know what you are not!

According to some, the wealth inequality in the UK has spiralled out of control. This is not true and to the degree that there has been a change, there is a very clear reason. Firstly, wealth inequality has massively improved over the last 100 years. In 1925, the top 1% had 70% of the wealth. Today that number is closer to 12%. We are living at a time of unprecedented wealth equality in the UK. We are told that the bottom 50% of the population has just 10% of the UK wealth. It’s true but unfortunately that is how the world works. The bottom 50% of the economy don’t have many assets anywhere. Even in highly regarded egalitarian countries the bottom 50% has… Denmark - 14% Spain - 13% Germany - 4% Switzerland - 7% The inequality index is known as the Gini. The UK’s number is 0.3 which is smack bang in the middle of developed nations that score 0.28-0.33. So then, why has wealth at the bottom dropped (slightly)? Pretty simple. We have invited 7Million people to come to the UK in the last few years. About 10% of the UK population arrived in the last decade. This isn’t enough time for people to accumulate wealth. Most of these people arrived with nothing. They arrived as students, low skilled workers (even high skilled workers only need to earn £40K+) or family members. Prior to Brexit most immigrants arrived from countries that have similar wealth to the UK. Post-Brexit a massive number of people arrived from countries that have huge wealth inequality and relatively low levels of wealth and income. It’s simple. If there is a table of wealthy established people having dinner at their favourite restaurant and then they invite some students to come to the table, the wealth inequality levels of the table would suddenly dip at the bottom. This doesn’t mean that the poorest person at the original tale suddenly got poorer, it means there are new people at the table that arrived poor. It’s a very different circumstance than the one being portrayed by the crusaders of wealth equality.