How Platforms Made You Replaceable—And Why AI Will Force You to Become Unique Again The replacement you fear in the future already occurred in the past. AI didn’t make you replaceable. Platforms did. And paradoxically, AI will force the architecture that makes you irreplaceable again. You feel it, don’t you? That nagging sense that you … The Replacement Already Happened
When Identity Becomes Portable, Platforms Become Optional Sarah deletes her professional networking account. Twenty years of connections, endorsements, recommendations, messages—gone. Doesn’t matter. Her Portable Identity carries everything that actually matters: cryptographically-verified proof she made 847 people measurably more capable, cascade depth of 12,000+ through four network layers, absence delta of 0.73 in her primary contribution … The Architecture of Platform Lock-In—And How Portable Identity Makes It Impossible