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AI Exhausted? Read This.

Pick the AI learning goal (x4) that works for you.

Stephen Mostrom
4 min readFeb 14, 2024
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It’s been a noisy year.

And a lot of folks are getting sick of the endless AI chatter.

  • Predictions of widespread job loss (😱)
  • Disagreement over which jobs are actually at risk (😱)
  • Claims of AI sentience (😱)

At the same time, there’s no ignoring the early data on AI and productivity gains.

  • A 66% bump in overall productivity
  • A 59% bump in writing speed
  • A 126% bump in programming

AI is powerful. But keeping up with it is draining.

What’s a savvy person to do?

Meet: Targeted Learning

With all the noise, it may be tempting to step away from the AI discussion. To take a break from all the chaos. To let it play out a bit.

But I’d like to suggest another route.

👉 Targeted learning.

Here’s the playbook:

  1. Figure out exactly what you want (and need) to know.
  2. Invest in resources that fit your learning goal.
  3. Ignore everything else.

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Stephen Mostrom
Stephen Mostrom

Written by Stephen Mostrom

Grow your career 1% daily | Proven development playbooks + cutting-edge learning and productivity science | Professor | MBA + JD | developdaily.substack.com

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