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The Weekly AI Briefing

🧑‍🏫 Latest AI thoughts, tools, and news from unburdn

Main Idea

Ever feel like you’re trying to sip from a firehose laced with espresso? Same. Even I miss news drops by 24-48 hours, and suddenly I’m the fossil at the tech party. But here’s the refreshing truth: if you’re “crawling” with AI—aka, you lean on ChatGPT daily—you are miles ahead of most companies. Last week a YPO friend used a prompt from my workshop to draft a razor-sharp dispute letter and clawed back $6,000 in minutes. No agents, no fancy bots—just good prompting. That’s the game right now: master the fundamentals, rack up small wins, repeat. Each rep builds intuition, and that muscle compounds faster than the headline hype cycle.

Here’s the play:

Schedule a weekly “AI rep”—15 minutes to solve a real problem with ChatGPT. Think receipts, summaries, tough emails. Follow the Laws of AI Excellence: MAFO, amplify, [context + persona + data + task], try it all, fact check often, and practice. Great prompts ≫ great models. Level up by logging wins. Track every saved hour or dollar; that feedback loop keeps you experimenting instead of panicking.

PS

Thank you for powering the rocket-ship launch of Unburdn. Demand already outstrips supply—an entrepreneur’s dream on day one. Couldn’t have done it without this community. THANK YOU!

📰 AI News Worth Knowing

🤖 AI Now Decides Promotions & Pink Slips – 6 in 10 managers already lean on AI for raises, layoffs, even firings. Amplifier = good. Autopilot = lawsuit. Train your people before the model trains you. Read Here 📈 Upwork Data: AI ≠ Job Killer – Across millions of gigs, AI is mostly augmenting work and spawning new roles, not wiping them out. Upskill, don’t up-panic. Read Here 🥗 Hidden Valley Ranch Gets an AI Make-over – Clorox let employees run wild with gen-AI. Some duds (ghost-white chicken wings), plenty of hits (new product ideas) and zero layoffs. Embrace “try everything, marry nothing.” Read Here 🏥 Google’s MedGemma Goes Multimodal – Open, image-and-text savvy medical models you can run in-house. Healthcare leaders: build smarter triage tools yesterday. Read Here 🚀 The “Tiny-Team” Startup Era – Bloomberg says AI is letting one-person shops out-produce yesterday’s 100-person crews. Efficiency per head is the new vanity metric. Read Here

🛠️ AI Tools You Need to Try

🧰 Unburdn.ai – “The Vault.” What it is: Our curated sandbox. Play Here

📢 Take Action

Master today’s basics and tomorrow’s breakthroughs become upgrades, not surprises. Stop duct-taping AI knowledge from random tweets. My private workshops turn curious teams into confident power users—fast. Hit reply or email nick@unburdn.ai before the calendar evaporates. July = sold-out. August (Denver only): Aug 22 & 25. September: Sept 1 week, 15-16, 22-24, 29-30. Subscribe

From the Field 🍣 Build-Your-Own Sushi & Strategy

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