Palantir’s billionaire CEO says only two kinds of people will succeed in the AI era: trade workers — ‘or you’re neurodivergent’

Billionaire Alex Karp tells Gen Z to skip elite college degrees, as one-fifth of Fortune 500 companies recruit more neurodivergent talent by 2027. https://fortune.com/2026/03/24/palantir-ceo-alex-karp-two-people-successful-in-ai-era-vocational-skills-neurodivergence-gen-z-career-advice/?utm_source=native_share&utm_medium=mobile&utm_campaign=share_test

Making sense of it all

What’s the trait you value most about yourself?

Being a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) is a trait, superpower and recognised as a neurobiological difference….and like everything else in life there is light and shade.

Sensory Processing Sensitivity ( SPS) it is specifically called in the science world. It is complex and impossible to put into a bite-sized piece for my blog post this morning.

I will endeavour to put some facts and figures about it for a post later if you are interested. Oh, here’s one statistic …20% of the population is hsp/sps.

Do you think that may include you? Lots of Creatives are.