Why AI Power Users Will Outpace Everyone Else

About this episode

The episode discusses how AI power users are leveraging technology to enhance productivity and the widening gap between those who understand AI and those who do not.

Most employees are using about 1% of what AI can actually do. Not because they’re lazy. Not because they lack access. But because no one has shown them how to think with it. Meanwhile, somewhere in Silicon Valley, a 23-year-old is running a startup like they’ve got 28 PhDs sitting beside them—for a penny a minute. That gap isn’t theoretical. It’s operational. And it’s widening by the hour. In this conversation, Kevin Surace and I dig into what that gap really means—for your productivity, your...

People in this episode

Guest: Kevin Surace

Topics covered

• AI
• productivity
• technology
• workplace

Keywords

• AI usage
• employee productivity
• Silicon Valley
• startup culture

Mentioned in this episode

Products: AI tools

Places: Silicon Valley

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