Nick's AI: 🚀 Would you brag about 77% turnover?! Maybe it's your strategy. How far would you go to become AI-first? At the Imagine AI conference in Vegas last week, one keynote stood out: Eric Vaughn, CEO of IgniteTech.

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Main Idea

How far would you go to become AI-first? At the Imagine AI conference in Vegas last week, one keynote stood out: Eric Vaughan, CEO of IgniteTech. He didn’t give a theoretical talk about transformation. He told a story of total reinvention. His company, a 30-year-old tech firm, went all-in on AI. Top-down. No fluff. No half-measures. His mandate? Retrain everyone. Use AI for everything. Build and sell only AI-first tools. The result? In two years, 77% of his workforce turned over. That sounds brutal until you realize: It’s like asking right-handed people to become left-handed. Or telling your whole team: “Starting now, we all speak Mandarin.” This isn’t some distant future. It’s already here. Vaughan didn’t sugarcoat it, and we shouldn’t either. When the printing press shows up, you stop writing by hand.

Here’s the play:

Don’t wait for the dust to settle. Create a culture of urgency, experimentation, and learning. AI transformation isn’t a memo—it’s a mandate. Start with training. Rethink your workflows. Accept that not everyone will adapt. But those who do? They’ll run circles around the rest.

📰 AI News Worth Knowing

📈 AI is coming for entry-level white-collar jobs. Dario Amodei says AI could wipe out half of these roles in 1–5 years. Time to get honest about the coming shift. ➡️ READ 🚔 The ethics of war are breaking down. AI weapons in Ukraine are killing more than ever, but can't reliably distinguish civilians. A brutal new battlefield reality. ➡️ READ 🔪 Anthropic’s Claude 4 Sonnet is now king. It just topped the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark. Want to compare model quality vs. cost? This is the leaderboard. ➡️ READ ⏰ Business hours are going extinct. Sequoia says the "Always-On Economy" is already here. The 9-to-5 is dying, and AI is making it possible. ➡️ READ 🧬 Satya Nadella isn’t waiting around. Microsoft is betting big on AI and expects trillions in new economic activity. The future is already in motion. ➡️ READ

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Here’s me and my son Vincent at Elitch’s. We do quarterly “family board meetings”—1:1, no phones, no distractions. Just real connection. Because if you’re not intentional about how you spend time, someone else will be. AI is amazing, but being present beats being plugged in. Thanks for reading. View email in browser[update your preferences or unsubscribe