I’m curious what your visceral reaction is when you see “AI” in the title of something these days.
My own reaction oscillates between being impressed by the timeliness and put off by the click bait. Not addressing it feels oblivious. Tackling it head-on feels like bandwagon behaviour. And I’m getting tired of the binary, potentially exhausting messaging of either “Get your head out of the sand,” or “Learn Markdown, deploy dozens of agents, subscribe to the pro versions of several LLMs and have you tried the latest xyz yet?”
Relevance requires that we grapple with AI. But calls to forget all the old ways of doing things exceed my capacity to unlearn at speed. Surely many of us are already finding our way down a third, wide path of learning that meanders somewhere between denial and daily vibe coding?
I appreciated a recent session at Thought Leaders Business School with Mehdi Nourbakhsh. He encouraged us to consider specific ways AI could help us in our expertise (i.e. with our thinking and insights), execution (i.e. getting things done in our practice) and [improved client] experience. That felt manageable and has re-energized my learning journey.
Perhaps that framework helps you find your own third way with AI too? I’d love to hear how you’re using it without being overwhelmed by it.
