What happens when knowledge finally becomes a market?
Lately I’ve been noticing something weird.
The people creating the most valuable knowledge online usually don’t benefit from it for very long.
A founder spends years learning painful lessons scaling a company.
A researcher develops a process that saves hundreds of hours.
An operator builds systems that quietly outperform competitors.
A developer solves the same infrastructure problems most teams still struggle with.
But most of that intelligence never becomes an actual asset.
It stays trapped inside meetings, client work, private workflows, company silos or temporary tools that stop being useful after a few weeks.
That feels broken. AI already made intelligence easier to generate. But generating more information doesn’t automatically create value. What’s still missing is a way for knowledge itself to become reusable, discoverable, trusted, and continuously valuable over time.
Not content farming.
Not another course marketplace.
I mean actual structured intelligence that compounds instead of expiring.
Feels like we’re still very early to this shift.
If a real market for reusable knowledge existed, what type of expertise do you think would become valuable first?