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Education
3 years of electronics engineering education. No augmentation yet.
Interactive big picture
See a career become Time+.
One illustrative electronics-engineering career, from education to human experience, then personal augmentation. Move through the years and watch human time fall while professional capital and company value grow.
Example professional identity
Electronics Engineer
Michael Laine
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The values below are a conceptual model for understanding the mechanism — not a prediction of real career outcomes, salary, AI performance, or employer return.
Career position
Education−3
EducationYear 0Year 9 · + startsYear 18 · 18+9Year 30
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Human foundation
Build judgment, context and practical experience at 37.5 h/week.
3
Build your +
Teach your augmentation through real work, corrections and outcomes.
4
High leverage
Your + handles more repeatable work. You focus on difficult cases.
5
Time+ / gradual retirement
Productive capability keeps growing while required human time falls.
What changes in parallel
One career. Four moving curves.
Human time required
37.5h
illustrative hours/week
Time+ reclaimed
0h
versus 37.5 h baseline
Professional capital
0
illustrative 0–100 index
Company gain
0
illustrative 0–100 value index
Financing evolves
Who carries the cost changes as the + matures.
You investTime, experience, corrections and optional personal contribution.
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Employer benefits & may co-fundMore useful output, less repetitive human time, retained knowledge.
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Your + becomes self-supportingProductive value can eventually cover operation and further development.
Ownership stays separated
Portable capability without portable trade secrets.
You own
Your +General methods, personal workflows and portable professional capability.Employer owns
Protected knowledgeConfidential data, customer information, company IP and trade secrets.Platform operates
The trusted boundaryPermissions, secure execution, audit trail, verification and portability controls.The more your + can do, the less you have to.
At this point in the model, the human is still building the foundation.Build your + throughout your career.
Own what you teach it. Take it with you. Let professional capability compound until more of your working time becomes your own.
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