April 8, 20263 min read
Skills are commodities. Moats are the new asset.
What survives the next AI release: data you own, taste, speed, network, trust, and capital. PathNav's Tracts are 8-16 week paths to build them.
The frontier model doesn't just write code, summarize papers, or draft memos — it does each of those well enough to commoditize the skill itself. Knowing how to do something is no longer the moat. The moat is what surrounds the work.
The six durable moats
- Data — first-party signals only you can collect.
- Speed — being the first to ship in your niche.
- Taste — judgment that survives infinite generation capacity.
- Network — the people who'll vouch for you.
- Trust — the reputation that opens doors before you knock.
- Capital — the runway to wait out hype cycles.
Most successful careers and companies stack two or three of these. Each PathNav Tract is an 8-16 week opinionated path to build at least one. They turn 'I want to get ahead' into the concrete habits and milestones that compound.
Browse the Tracts at /tracts. Adopt one and the steps land in your plan automatically.
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