The Minimum You Need to Do Before AI Changes Your Life

A No-Panic Checklist for Normal People in an Abnormal Moment

You've seen the headlines. You've maybe tried ChatGPT once, got a strange answer, and gone back to business as usual. Your job is still there. The paycheck still arrives. Everything looks essentially the same as last year.

That's exactly the problem.

The AI disruption isn't arriving with an announcement. It's arriving as a hiring freeze that doesn't get lifted. A junior position quietly eliminated. A department of twelve reorganized into four. It's already happening — across hundreds of industries, simultaneously — and most people are doing nothing to prepare.

This book is the minimum you need to do. Nothing more, nothing less.

Guustaaf Damave spent three decades building software before AI became better at it than he was. He's been writing about what that means for everyone else — every week, for two years. This book is the distillation of that thinking: seven practical chapters, each ending with a short checklist, designed to be read and acted on in a single focused weekend.

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