You can dread the future or help build it. The people who come through this already chose.While panic around what AI means for our industry is the reflex right now, calm is a decision. The calm that comes from knowing what you actually know is the rarest and most valuable thing you can bring to a moment like this.I recently turned 50 and reckoning with that did what it does to so many people. It made me think. Not in a hauntingly dramatic, staring-out-the-window way, but in an introspective way where you start taking stock of what you’ve actually learned, what still rattles you, and what has stopped rattling you entirely.That thinking rooted itself from a conversation I had with Skift founder Rafat Ali. When he found out my birthday was coming, he got genuinely excited for me, which is not how most people react to 50. He told me the day after my birthday would be the best day of my...