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The AI Survival Guide
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A weekly look at how to build, adapt, and hedge for the future as AI accelerates. One signal worth understanding and one skill worth practicing, in your inbox Monday morning.
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This week's signal
One development that matters more than the headline suggests, traced back to its original source and explained.
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What I'm building
The projects I'm working on and what they're teaching me. Lately: a video editing pipeline and a physical space for Austin creators.
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What I'm learning
Notes on what I'm reading, testing and rethinking that week.
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Survival skill
One practical move you can start this week. Recent ones: Make Yes Cheap, Hold Office Hours and Own the Position.
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Weekly AI prompt
A ready-to-use prompt to copy into whichever AI tool you already use.
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Who writes it
Hi, I'm Ken Jee.
I write The AI Survival Guide, a weekly look at how to build, adapt, and hedge for the future as AI accelerates. Each Monday I cover what I'm building, what I'm learning, and how to create a life that thrives no matter how fast technology moves.
This is not an anti-AI newsletter. Using AI well is one of the best short-term hedges there is. The longer-term hedge is building what AI can't easily copy: things you own, relationships, judgment and trust earned in person.
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