How to Keep Up with AI At Work (Without Losing Your Mind)

How to Keep Up with AI At Work (Without Losing Your Mind)

July 12, 2026 · 25 min

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The episode discusses how workers can effectively collaborate with AI in the workplace, featuring insights from an AI power user.

Artificial intelligence models have taken over the corporate world, and workers are trying to figure out how to collaborate with their new robot co-workers. In this first episode of “Work Mode,” a new series from The Journal on the evolution of work, WSJ’s Callum Borchers shares the strategies that work best and the pitfalls to avoid. And we hear from Michael Rueckert, AI power user who transformed his work life with Claude and leveraged his AI skills into a new start up. Ryan Knutson hosts. Further Listening: - How AI Is Being Trained to Do Your Job - Microsoft’s CEO Has a Message: Don’t Let AI Eat the Economy - The ‘Class of AI’ Enters the Workforce Subscribe to On the Clock Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Host: Callum Borchers

Guest: Michael Rueckert

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