## Metadata - Author: [[Benn Stancil]] - Full Title:: In the Air - Category:: #🗞️Articles - URL:: https://benn.substack.com/p/in-the-air - Read date:: [[2025-10-18]] ## Highlights > The collective effort of a generous community has granted us a great privilege: We can stay here forever. This industry will exist[3](https://benn.substack.com/p/in-the-air/#footnote-3) longer than we will; our career ladders extend higher than most of us can climb.[4](https://benn.substack.com/p/in-the-air/#footnote-4) We have [more data, more problems](https://www.linkedin.com/in/drewbanin/), and more to do. We can get away with hosting conferences that are more [high-wire demos](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliasdefaria/) than scripted “fireside chats” from high-paying customers. We can keep building the invisible infrastructure of modern society, and log off when the sun sets and it’s time to go home. > But if we want to live in the spotlight—on the wild edge of possibility, with the frontiersmen—that is no longer here. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k7v8555qqjj3ykh54andc40m))