The Kodak Story: They Had the Future… and Buried It. In 1996, Kodak had over 170,000 workers. By 2012, it went bankrupt. They didn’t just dominate the photo industry. They were the photo industry. Birthdays. Graduations. Weddings. Memories. All through Kodak’s lens. Then one day, an engineer built the first digital camera inside Kodak. He showed it to leadership but they panicked. “Too risky,” they said. “It will kill our film business.” So they buried it. Sat on it. Pretended the future wasn’t knocking. Meanwhile… The world moved on. ➤ Sony launched digital cameras. ➤ Apple put one in every phone. ➤ Instagram let us share them in seconds. But Kodak? It watched and disappeared. Not because the idea failed. But because the mindset did. They were afraid to disrupt themselves. They clung to what was working… and lost everything. So here’s the question no one wants to ask: 𝘼𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙣 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙛𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪'𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙤 𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙚𝙩 𝙜𝙤 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙩? This is the age of AI. The ongoing revolution doesn’t reward comfort. It rewards reinvention. And it won’t wait for you to catch up. You don’t have to invent the next big thing. But you do have to evolve. Faster than ever before. If AI knocked on your door today, would you open it or hide like Kodak? Happy New Week to all Career Dreamers in the Community!