[Disclaimer: A little different this week. Giving you a reminder and a prompt—with instructions.]
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The Weekly AI Briefing
🧑‍🏫 Latest AI thoughts, tools, and news from
unburdn
Housekeeping. Still working to clone more trainers (the human kind,
not AI… yet). Full-day sessions available:
September.
9
October.
6, 22, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30
November.
3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 14, 21, 24, 25, 26
Main Idea
[Disclaimer: A little different this week. Giving you a reminder and a prompt—with instructions.]
Life-changing hack:
AI is not a replacer; it’s an amplifier. It should help you
think better, not
think for you.
Story time… Most of my biggest jumps came from mentors who gave me tough feedback, no sugar-coating. Those relationships came from good luck and lots of privilege.
Thanks to AI, no more moats. You have 24/7 access to sharper coaching than I ever had—if you use it right.
This week's hack:
Use ChatGPT as your personal "team of rivals." Feed it your ideas and ask for brutal criticism. Get the feedback your team might be too polite to give. Test strategies without the politics.
Build your own team of rivals: Prompt + instructions (Google Doc)
Here’s the play:
Build a "board of advisors" in ChatGPT with 5-6 contrasting personas (skeptic, optimist, competitor, customer, etc)
Run every major decision through them before committing real resources
Use the
prompt template I'm sharing to build your own in 10 minutes
PS: Keep reading for hot-takes on headlines, AI tools, and a personal story + pic
đź“° AI News Worth Knowing
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Create your own “Rivals” room in minutes. A WSJ writer used AI personas to get sharper, faster feedback than real-world meetings ever deliver. Why care? It’s a practical way to puncture AI flattery and your own bias—perfect for solo leaders or teams stuck in stakeholder deadlock.
Read Here.
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“AI-native” 20-somethings are landing $1M packages. Entry-level is tough overall, but young pros fluent in AI are getting hired, promoted, and paid—fast. If you’re early in your career and not all-in on AI, you’re missing the boat.
Read Here.
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Is AI crushing entry-level jobs—or changing the game? New data show younger workers in
automation-heavy roles are getting squeezed, while those in
AI-augmented roles are growing. Translation: get on the augmentation side—fast.
Read Here.
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Provocative macro read on AI takeoff. Big-picture, speculative, and fun: how AI could reshape the economy at massive scale—and what policy should (and shouldn’t) do. Worth five minutes.
Read Here.
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Educators are quietly going all-in on AI—often without guardrails. Anthropic analyzed 74k educator chats: heavy use for curriculum, research, and even grading. Businesses are sprinting; schools are mostly MAFO’ing. Expect a widening skills gap.
Read Here.
🛠️ AI Tools You Need to Try
🧪
OpenAI Prompt Editor
What it is: A built-in editor to design, test, and reuse higher-quality prompts.
How to use it: Turn your best prompts into templates for sales emails, briefs, or SOPs—then hand them to your team.
Try it.
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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: 🤠The Athleisure Cowboy
I've been a
YPO member since 2015, and it completely transformed my trajectory. It's 100% responsible for pushing me into the AI space. But YPO isn't all spreadsheets and strategy sessions—this week they hosted a private rodeo for members and families. We had a blast.
And yes, I showed up in athleisure instead of western wear because I jumped straight from a flight. Sometimes the best moments happen when you stop trying to look the part and just show up.
Same principle applies to AI adoption: done beats perfect every time.
Thanks for reading. 🙏
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