Category: Careers

  • Agentic AI Is Quietly Killing Your Ability to Think Deeply — Here’s How to Get It Back

    Agentic AI switches system 2 to system 1. For those who haven’t followed the late economist Daniel Kahnemann, his book, Thinking Fast and Slow, detailed two categories of thinking, which he called system 1 and system 2. System 1 thinking is rapid, intuitive, and sometimes unconscious. System 2 thinking is slow, deliberative, and reflective. When…

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  • 7 Powerful Steps to Build AI-Driven Master Documents: My Complete Framework for Research, Creation, and Quality Assurance

    In the spirit of sharing what we build, here’s the process I use with AI to generate most things, most days: Deep research ensemble: if it’s important, I’ll conduct 5 different deep research projects on 6 different platforms: Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, DeepSeek, and Qwen. The last two are important! Make sure you’re using AI…

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  • Worth More Than the Work

    Summary In today's episode, I explore the tension between professional labor and intrinsic self-worth. Here's what this means for you. You find the strength to see yourself as more than just a collection of completed tasks. You'll also learn these concepts: the pitfalls of quantifying existence, how inherent worth defies economic measurement, and why intuition…

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  • How to Build AI Agent Teams That Actually Get Things Done

    Ignore Claude Opus 4.6. The real magic is Claude Code Agent Teams. Imagine setting out a clear project plan and… then watching your employees arrive. A project manager. A devil’s advocate. A UX designer. A technical architect. They all just arrive at the office, clock in, and get to work. And they talk to each…

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  • The Secret Ingredients: 5 Tiny AI Hacks That Multiply Your Productivity

    Sometimes the secret sauce is just a collection of little things. In AI, a lot of folks understandably focus on prompts – they’re the recipes that AI uses to cook with. But anyone who’s spent more than a minute in a kitchen knows that things like ingredients, appliances, chef skills, menu, etc. all matter. When…

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  • How to Evolve Your Work From AI-Vulnerable Commodity to Irreplaceable Experience

    Stop panicking. Start thinking. Lots of folks reading the Shumer piece are either panicking the freak out or sticking their heads in the sand, parroting the age old lines of “AI can never replace [given human attribute]”. Folks, dust off your marketing strategy from B school, because we’ve been here before. We forgot product evolution…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: When Clients Think AI Replaces Humans?

    Summary In today's episode, I tackle the difficult question of how to maintain professional relevance when clients believe AI can replace human work. Here's what this means for you. You gain the perspective that allows you to move beyond mere task execution and into high-value strategic roles. You'll also learn these concepts: the risks of…

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  • Master Your AI Workflow: The /export Command You Need to Know

    /export That’s the magic command that makes your prompts in AI CLI coding tools reproducible. At the end of a significant chunk of work in a tool like Claude Code, Gemini CLI, OpenAI Codex, Qwen Code, etc., type /export and it will dump the chat history to a text file. If you came up with…

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  • Build a Portable Agent Library: How to Stop Reinventing the Wheel with AI Tools

    Stop reinventing the agentic wheel. One of the cardinal principles of good development is to not reinvent the wheel -that is, to not recreate something that already exists. If you’re using agentic AI tools like Claude Code, Gemini CLI, OpenAI Codex, Qwen Code, etc., when you start a new project, there’s a very good chance…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Will AI Replace Creative Jobs?

    Summary In today's episode, I examine whether AI will replace marketing and creative professionals or simply transform their roles. Here's what this means for you. You can protect your career by identifying which parts of your job machines can handle and which parts require genuine human creativity. You'll also learn these concepts: how templated tasks…

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