🖤 Open Works #41 How Do I Future-proof My Career In The Age Of AI

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I don’t know what the future holds. It is a wild time.

Some people think: smaller companies, less people, less need for people people.

I don’t know about that. Personally, I struggle to imagine a world and an economy that works if the median company size is capped at <10 people.

What I do know is that the difference between a People Leader who has developed craft in leveraging AI vs one who hasn’t is dramatic.

I’ve always been a fan of the ethos of “control what you can control” and in this instance the thing that's in your control is your craft. Your skills.

Here’s 3 areas to build

1. Build automation fluency

Start by removing yourself from low-leverage work: onboarding docs, survey summaries, policy drafts. Know the tools. Know what’s worth automating. Free yourself up to focus on harder, human problems.

▪️ Here’s a simple framework i built to think about this:

2. Learn how to write for machines

Prompt writing is now a core skill. The best prompts unlock sharper thinking, faster iteration, and stronger comms. If you can guide AI clearly, you can move faster than the teams around you.

My fave 2 resources to level up here are:

▪️ Schumer’s Prompt Library

▪️ Prompt Cowboy.

3. Lead the AI curve for your team

Companies need someone to bring AI in without breaking trust or culture. Be the person who experiments, shares, and helps others increase fluency. That’s leadership now.

Something that stand out for me here that often gets overlooked:

▪️ Know Kotter well enough to be able to see through the corporate language to the (golden) principles at heart and be able to remix it to fit your org, like this.

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