AI-Era Personal Strategy
Build a literate, non-anxious view of how AI and emerging tech are reshaping work, information, security, and politics — then turn that into specific personal bets for the next 12-36 months.
12 lessons ~9 hoursSelf-paced
Who this is for
Adults whose work depends on judgement, language, or pattern-matching and who want a calmer, more concrete view of the next decade than the news offers. Not a doomerism path, not a hype path.
The sequence
7-day quickstart
- Day 1 — Read the AI risk literacy preview lesson and write your current AI worry in one sentence.
- Day 2 — Apply the AI claim evaluation worksheet to one news article.
- Day 3 — List five tasks at work AI could plausibly do this year.
- Day 4 — Identify one part of your role that benefits from human judgement.
- Day 5 — Read the geopolitics-and-emerging-tech preview lesson.
- Day 6 — Write a personal three-year scenario for your role.
- Day 7 — Pick one concrete bet for that scenario.
30-day plan
Week 1
Literacy
- Complete the AI risk literacy micro-course.
- Apply the AI claim evaluation worksheet to three claims you encounter.
- Tighten your information diet — remove one source that consistently misleads.
Week 2
Career resilience
- Complete the career resilience micro-course.
- Audit your weekly tasks for AI substitution risk.
- Pick one task to automate or delegate to AI this week.
Week 3
Geopolitics
- Complete the geopolitics-and-emerging-tech micro-course.
- Identify the two trends most likely to affect your work directly.
- Read one critical and one optimistic source on each.
Week 4
Bets
- Write a three-year scenario for your role and your finances.
- Place two concrete, time-bounded bets (skill, savings, network, location).
- Schedule a six-month review.
Completion checklist
- AI risk literacy micro-course finished.
- Career resilience micro-course finished.
- AI claim evaluation worksheet used at least three times.
- Personal three-year scenario written down.
- Two concrete bets placed.