1566: The AI-Ready Human, Future-Proof Your Career with Paul Slater

About this episode

Paul Slater discusses the impact of AI on work and how to future-proof careers by embracing human traits.

From early days of bulky PCs under desks to two decades inside Microsoft, my guest Paul Slater has had a front row seat to every major tech shift—and now he helps leaders face the most disruptive one yet: AI. In this episode, I talk with Paul about how AI is not just a tool, but a new “team member” that forces us to rethink work, skill, and strategy. We get into why AI adoption feels so unstable and fast, how to stay relevant when the tech changes every three months, and why your real moat now is human traits like resilience, adaptability, and better judgment—not code or features alone. https://youtu.be/lN_0c2WpmYA?si=SykUIBM_BUg-0N1z You’ll hear how Paul sees AI reshaping code, software moats, and whole industries, why “vibe code” and new dev tools mean almost any SaaS can face a clone or a rival in a weekend, and how his 90‑day “AI Ready Human” approach helps people move from anxious user to strategic partner with AI. We also go into his failure story with his startup Billion Minds, what he learned about mission drift and hard shutdown calls, and how that experience now fuels his work with companies that want to be AI ready at both the human and org level. If you are a founder…

People in this episode

Host: Robert Plank

Guest: Paul Slater

Topics covered

• AI
• career development
• technology adoption
• human skills
• entrepreneurship

Keywords

• AI
• career
• technology
• human traits
• entrepreneurship
• BANI world
• resilience

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft, Billion Minds

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