Coaching Yourself Out of a Job

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Knowledge base

"The Man Who Beat IBM" by Gareth Edwards/The Crazy Ones: In 1988, when IBM tried to reclaim control of the PC market with proprietary technology, Compaq's CEO made the unthinkable decision to create an open standard and share it with competitors—effectively giving away “the company jewels” to preserve innovation. Read this for a riveting tale of how one man's decision to prioritize openness over monopoly shaped the future of personal computing. (For more on this story, scroll down.)

"I Cloned 2,000 Hacker News Users to Predict Viral Posts" by Michael Taylor/Also True for Humans: Ever wish you could predict which of your brilliant ideas will go viral before posting them? Michael Taylor did exactly that by creating nearly 2,000 AI personas based on real Hacker News commenters and asking them to predict winning headlines. Read this for practical takeaways on using AI for market research and a prompt template to try this approach yourself.

🎧 🖥 "The Man Inside the Minds of the People Building AGI" by Rhea Purohit/AI & I: Joe Hudson, an executive coach who works with OpenAI’s leadership, believes AI will eventually replace coaching—his own livelihood—yet he's helping guide the very minds creating this future. Read this if you want to stop freaking out about AI taking your job and instead use this moment of uncertainty as a catalyst for personal growth. 🎧 🖥 Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

"I Stopped Writing Code. My Productivity Exploded." by Yash Poojary/Source Code: Remember when coding meant actually typing out functions? How quaint. Sparkle general manager Yash Poojary went from manually writing every line to not touching a keyboard for weeks—and somehow built Sparkle's most requested feature in the process. Read this if you're worried about becoming obsolete in the age of AI.