10 Survival Rules for Ordinary People in the AI ​​Era

Attendees: Approximately sixty people—entrepreneurs, engineers, product managers, investors, recent graduates, and a few who said they were "just there to listen before they figured it out."

Speaker: Alan Walker, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, a participant in three cycles, now only drinks black coffee and doesn't use question marks.

Time: April 2026, one week after the release of Project Glasswing.

This is not a methodology, not workplace skills.

It's about how to survive, and then thrive, in a species-level transformation.

Opening · ALAN WALKER

“Someone sent a message before he arrived, asking, ‘AIan, AI is coming, will ordinary people still have a chance?’ Alan didn’t reply. Because the question itself was flawed.

In 1440, before the Gutenberg printing press, what was the most valuable profession in Europe?—a scribe. In a monastery, a senior scribe's status was equivalent to a senior engineer today; he controlled the production and circulation of knowledge. After the printing press appeared, some of them disappeared. Others became editors, publishers, authors, and teachers. They didn’t disappear; they migrated.