Awesomeness in the AI Age

Thirty questions people are asking in 2026, one chapter each: What am I for if a machine can do my job? Am I going to outlive my money? Why do I feel invisible? How do I make a real friend at thirty-five? Who am I now that my job title is optional? What do I do when my teenager won’t look up? Why do I sabotage what I want most? How do I forgive myself for the years I lost? Every chapter has the same build. It opens with one person in one bad moment. It names the two kinds of advice that fail that person: the kind that asks nothing, and the kind that demands everything and offers no help. Then it gives a hard standard and three supports that make the standard reachable, and one thing to do this week. It ends with a real person who built an answer — Bronnie Ware, Fred Rogers, Julia Child, Frank McCourt, Sal Khan, Sue Johnson, Atul Gawande, BJ Fogg, Edith Eger and twenty more — and three questions to answer on paper. The idea underneath comes from Alpha School in Austin, where kindergarteners climb a forty-foot rock wall with a harness and an adult holding the rope: high standards and high support, at the same time. About 84,000 words. The dedication, the Author’s Note and Chapter One are free to read.

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