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Main Idea

You can’t get good at AI as a person or as a company in a vacuum. I’ve been seeing it again and again lately. Get a group in a room with the same baseline AI proficiency and start talking about wins. Ten out of ten times you will hear something painfully obvious and extremely high value. Just for fun: this week, a guy explained how he used ChatGPT’s “Agent” feature to handle a tedious data pull that a human would’ve taken days to click through. He gave the agent his login, pointed it at the right place, wrote the task in plain English, and later had a clean list as if an intern had done it. I couldn’t believe it—so back at the hotel I tried the pattern. It worked. [PS- Sounds fancy, but this requires ZERO tech skills] The lesson: spend intentional, recurring, regimented time with peers or with your team. Break the org into groups if you need to. You don’t want an imbalance of haves and have-nots—that’s table stakes. Beyond that, you want to maximize the amplification of this technology within yourself and within your company. Peer groups and discussion groups are a surefire way to accelerate and compound your AI wins and proficiency.

Here’s the play:

Put it on the calendar: a weekly 30–60 minute AI session with the same people and a shared baseline. Two wins, one stuck point: go around the room and capture it in a single shared doc. Try one thing before next week: a prompt, a workflow, a template, or a policy—then report back. PS: Keep reading for hot-takes on headlines, AI tools, and a personal story + pic Aaaaand I might be going too far with Nano Banana…

📰 AI News Worth Knowing

👤 AI companions are coming—and they’ll be sticky Zoom out from the “AI girlfriend” headlines. Expect always-on companions that most people will quietly defer to for planning, paperwork, and polite nudging. Providers will optimize for stickiness, not flourishing. Read Here 🧭 How people actually use ChatGPT (not the hype) Practical advice, writing, and everyday decision support dominate. Translation: it’s a work tool and a personal sidekick, not just a coder toy—and the economic value is showing up in unsexy, daily decisions. Read Here 🧰 Fiverr says the quiet part out loud AI lets you run leaner, cut layers, and move faster, so they’re rebuilding the company around that premise. If you run a marketplace, services business, or a big team, this is a case study in rewiring the org—not just adding tools. Read Here 🌍 AI won’t stabilize—treat this as lifelong learning Global initiatives and partnerships keep accelerating the space. Skills will have a half-life. Your team needs ongoing reps, not one-and-done training—exactly why our programs are in high demand. Read Here 🧹 The boring wins will pay the bills Scott Jenson’s take: the value isn’t giant “assistant” models; it’s smaller, cheaper ones doing invisible chores—query rewrites, proofreading, nudges—that make products feel better. Stop chasing wow; start deleting drudgery. Read Here

🛠️ AI Tools You Need to Try

🎞️ Gamma 3.0 What it is: I’m a mega-user of Gamma. Gamma 3.0 isn’t just an AI deck builder—it’s a storytelling engine with an AI design partner. How to use it: Feed it your proposal or transcript. Let it research, rewrite, redesign, and critique—then, with the API, generate on-brand decks from CRM data or transcripts at scale. If you’re in sales, fundraising, or teaching, the win is compressing hours of prep into minutes. Try it. 🧰 Unburdn’s Vault. A curated library of AI tools mapped to Crawl → Walk → Run stages. Great cheat‑sheet for leveling up your team’s stack. Explore Here.

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From the Field: 🍁 Change Is Beautiful

Photo: me, my wife, and our kids in front of Lake Dillon in Colorado—right in the middle of the fall leaf color change, and it is absolutely stunning. This picture is important to me because it’s a reminder that change is constant and all change is beautiful. We’ve been together nearly 23 years, and we are vastly different than we were back in our junior year of high school. Our kids started out around seven pounds and are now accelerating quickly toward their teenage years. Behind us is an area that used to be a stream; they built a dam and turned into a lake. If you take a step back and just enjoy it, all of it is beautiful. It didn’t matter that we sat in multiple hours of traffic to get home—being in the moment was beautiful too. Same with AI: don’t fight the season. Notice it, plan for it, and let it make you better. That’s the mindset I want for teams: accept the pace, make space for it, and keep talking about the wins every week so the change compounds in your favor. Thanks for reading. 🙏 Copyright (C) 2025 AI for the Rest of Us LLC dba Unburdn. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe