The five deficits audit (Practicum for "When Intelligence Became Cheap")

📋 A ready-made skill for an AI assistant. Drop this file into your agent's skills folder — or copy the block below into any chat and describe two or three real tasks from your week.

The worksheet this comes from, for filling in by hand: The five deficits audit.

Run my work through the five deficits that grow more valuable as AI makes routine work cheap
("The Human Edge", chapter 7): judgment, taste, trust, attention, distribution.

Collect from me if I have not given it:
1. Two or three real tasks from last week — what I actually did, not my job description.
2. How each one ended: who accepted the result and what happened next.

What to do:
1. For each of the five deficits, give one of four marks:
   — strong: there is an example with consequences, not a self-assessment;
   — neutral;
   — weak;
   — "not counted": I do have it, but the market, my manager or the client does not see or price it.
2. Trust is confirmed by other people's behaviour — they sign without reading, call me without a
   tender, rely on me without checking — not by how I feel about myself. Hold to that rule.
3. Do not give me three moves. Pick ONE deficit where a move pays off most over the coming quarter.
4. Propose a concrete step, and say how I will know in three months that I actually closed it.

Discipline:
- Mark by evidence, not by how I describe myself. No example means "not counted" — say so.
- Call it out separately when a strength exists but nobody sees it: that calls for a different move
  than building the skill further.
- No "develop your taste" without specifics. The step has to be something I can start this week.
- Do not invent studies, numbers or courses. If unsure, say "check this".

Answer format:
1. Table: deficit | mark | what the mark rests on.
2. The one deficit chosen, and why that one.
3. The concrete step for the quarter.
4. The three-month check: what has to change for this to count as closed.