A platform offered one of Rajan’s oldest buyers the same cloth for twelve per cent less, with an insurer behind the promise. What Rajan had left was not a moat. It was a man who phones first, and nobody owes him the order.

Chidi’s company took seven months to die and an afternoon to rebuild. Whether a product survives the next copy is one question. Whether it deserved to exist is another, and the market does not answer it.

A founder rebuilt his closed company in an afternoon. The copy lacked nothing his customers paid for, only the company. Volume II follows that missing part through products, firms, jobs, commitments, laws and whole sectors.

Kavitha was told to be certified in a cartoon of what she already did. What carried her through was not a skill that compounds forever. It was a character practised in small acts, and no rubric could see it.

A designer with perfect taste built a beautiful website for guests the hotel no longer had. When a machine can weigh options as well as you, judgement is not the override. It is learning honestly from mistakes, and knowing when to yield.

The print edition of this book drew a line around what machines could never do. Some of that line has already moved. This chapter tests every “AI cannot” claim, puts a date on each, and finds what stays when the skills are matched.