Leverage
One person + AI now outproduces a team of ten.
Solo founders are shipping million-dollar products. Researchers are running entire labs. The ceiling on individual ambition has moved.
Appendix · Daily AI Fluency
AI literacy is the new general literacy.
Not because it's trendy. Because it compounds. Every month you use AI well, the ceiling on what one human can do moves up. Every month you don't, the gap widens.
Wages
AI fluency is the largest pay differentiator since the internet.
PwC, McKinsey, WEF and LinkedIn all report a clear premium — 20–50%+ — for workers who can credibly use AI in their role.
Defensibility
Not learning AI is the new not learning to use a computer.
Tasks that were specialist (writing code, designing graphics, drafting contracts) are now table-stakes for anyone willing to learn the tools.
Agency
AI literacy is civic literacy.
Voting, parenting, working, creating — all of it now happens in a world shaped by AI. Understanding it is the price of entry to the conversation.
A practical daily practice
Six habits, starting today.
There is no certificate that will make you AI-fluent. Only daily contact with the tools.
- 01Use a frontier chatbot (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Kimi, DeepSeek) every single day for at least one real task.
- 02Learn to prompt: be specific, give context, show examples, ask for a draft, iterate.
- 03Pick one creative tool (image, video, music or 3D) and ship something every week.
- 04Try a coding agent (Cursor, Claude Code, Lovable, Replit, v0). Build something useful, even badly.
- 05Read one primary source per week — a lab blog post (OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, DeepSeek) or a paper abstract.
- 06Follow practitioners over pundits: Karpathy, Simon Willison, Ethan Mollick, Latent Space, the original lab researchers.