The EIC Framework: How to Win in the Age of AI

I came up with this in an Uber ride in Brazil. Because that’s what I do. I think about leverage, AI, the collapse of the job market, and how to stay alive while everything burns.

So here’s the EIC Framework, my survival strategy for the next decade.

If you’re under 30, broke, terminally online, and smart enough to see the storm coming, this is for you.

Reality Check: You’re Being Replaced

Let’s start with the obvious:

AI is replacing your brain.

Not in 10 years. Now.

GPT-4 is already better at writing, coding, researching, investing, and summarizing law than most paid professionals. Add open-source agents, vector stores, and a few wrappers, and your job just turned into a commodity.

This means:

• 80% of white-collar jobs are going to implode or be radically transformed.

• Gig work, unemployment and solo entrepreneurship will explode.

• The middle class will vanish, fast.

Most people will distract themselves to death.

🧭 So what do you do?

You build your own loops of survival and leverage.

That’s where EIC comes in.

Simple. Tight. Effective.

🔁 E → I → C

🟢 E — Extract

Extract value from the chaos.

Right now there’s more:

• Free data

• Open-source tech

• Unlocked markets

• Isolated problems

• Ignored niches

• Viral loops

• Lonely people

• Outdated systems

...than ever before in human history.

But you’re watching Twitch clips and scrolling memes.

Stop consuming. Start extracting.

How?

• Go into Reddit and identify pain points in obscure subreddits.

• Cold DM people who are smarter than you.

• Drop content. Launch experiments. Sell templates. Offer services.

• Read sentiment. Mine conversations. Turn posts into products.

You don’t need a startup idea. You need a vibe and a hook.

🔵 I — Invest

Now take what you extract: attention, capital, opportunity, and compound it.

Most people blow their first win. Don’t.

Instead:

• DCA into solid assets. Learn asymmetric bets.

• Understand stocks, crypto, macro, and momentum.

• Reinvest your money into tools, reach, and learning.

• Use AI to build your edge, trendspotting, automation, trading, research.

If you don’t invest, you’re stuck trading time forever.

If you invest poorly, you’re back to square one.

“Money makes freedom. Compounding makes power.”

🔴 C — Create

This is the final boss.

If you can extract and invest, great. You’ll survive.

But if you want to own your time, build real leverage, and escape the game, you need to create.

Create solutions, systems, art, software, platforms, memes, or movements. Solve real pain.

Don’t just own your skill. Own distribution. Own a product. Own IP.

Create things people care about.

That they talk about.

That solve a pain they feel daily.

“If you’re not creating, you’re replaceable.”

The good news?

• AI and "vibecoding" lower the bar for creation to near-zero.

The bad news?

• Now everyone can build. So only signal matters.

Only distribution matters.

That loops you back to Extract. EIC is a cycle.

Final Advice: AI Is Your Pilot

Don’t compete with AI. Collaborate with it.

AI is:

• 100x faster than you

• Always awake

• Never tired

• Cheap

• And getting smarter every update

Feed it context. Give it constraints. Let it generate solutions, copy, code, ideas.

You’re the director, not the genius.

Use GPT + tools like DeepSeek, Claude, Perplexity, LangChain, etc, daily.

You don’t need to know everything.

You need to know how to ask and act.

📌 The Playbook (tl;dr)

1. Extract: Find value. Build network. See patterns.

2. Invest: Grow capital. Build leverage. Build a presence.

3. Create: Solve problems. Own assets. Loop.

Repeat until free.

One Last Thing

Don’t marry. Don’t have kids.

The biggest flex of the 2030s is being:

• Free

• Wealthy

• Alone

• In shape

• Vibecoding in a rooftop café while the system melts.

Kill your ego. Build your systems. Be rational. Don’t cope. Execute.

We’re not all gonna make it. But maybe you will.

I'm 20.

This is my framework.

You don’t have to agree.

But if this post hit a nerve, you know what to do next. Start overloading your Stripe.