Hard Skills, Soft Skills, And Money-Making Skills

In the world that I grew up in, there was an unreasonable amount of emphasis on “hard” skills — like design and development — technical things where you can produce a tangible output. There’s considerably less emphasis on the “soft” skills — the somewhat intangible elements that weave in between the produced output, like air. It’s unbelievably ironic to me that the world we’re trained for — where hard skills dominate and earn you money — is rapidly going away. Now (and possibly it has been like this forever) you need both hard and soft skills to make a decent to great living. Money-making skills are often soft skills. It doesn’t matter how awesome you are in AI, Design, Web Development, etc… if you cannot communicate the value of what you do. if you cannot tell if someone is interested (and willing to pay for) what you have to offer if they don’t believe what you say if you don’t know how to communicate or command trust if you have no idea how to get to the heart of the matter if you…