1111: How to Get Better Results from AI to Amplify Your Productivity with Gianluca Mauro
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How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Gianluca Mauro discusses the mindset and habits for getting the most out of AI tools.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How to avoid the trap of AI “workslop”
2) What you can and can’t expect AI to do
3) The CIDI framework for better prompting
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— ABOUT GIANLUCA —
Gianluca is the Founder and CEO of AI Academy, an AI education company founded in 2017. AI Academy has trained more than 12000 individuals and teams to harness the power of artificial intelligence for more productivity and better results.
Gianluca has over 10 years of experience consulting and building AI for organizations and currently teaches at Harvard’s Executive Education programs. He’s also the author of the book Zero to AI and the investigation on AI gender bias “There is no standard’: investigation finds AI algorithms objectify women’s bodies”, published in The Guardian.
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— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Study: "Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of AI on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality" by Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, et al.
• Article: "AI-Generated 'Workslop' Is Destroying Productivity" by Kate Niederhoffer, et al.
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• Book: "Obvious Adams: The Story of a Successful Businessman" by Robert Updegraff
• Book: "Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It" by Mike Monteiro
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| 0:00.0 | The tool is powerful, but it all comes down to the mindset that you have when you use it. |
| 0:15.4 | Do you want to have quick answers? |
| 0:17.0 | And you just want to get as fast as possible to a bunch of texts you can send to your boss |
| 0:21.1 | or you can publish on LinkedIn. |
| 0:23.2 | It's probably going to just boost your laziness, just not get anything high quality. |
| 0:27.6 | But if instead you use it as an amplifier for your curiosity, for your expertise, for your |
| 0:33.8 | capabilities, well, now we're talking. |
| 0:36.4 | Now you can really get to some amazing outputs. |
| 0:49.7 | That's John Luke Amarro. |
| 0:51.4 | He's the founder and CEO of AI Academy. |
| 0:53.7 | John Luke has been in the AI game for over 10 years and has helped over 12,000 teams and individuals harness the power of AI through his workshops, programs, and online courses. You'll learn, one, how to avoid the trap of AI workslop. Two, what you can and can't expect AI to do. And three, the CIDI framework for better prompting. |
| 1:13.9 | And if you want a quick summary write-up of the actionable takeaways for this episode, |
| 1:17.3 | I recommend you mosey on over to awesomeatyourjob.com slash EP1111. |
| 1:23.8 | Now, he's John Luca. |
| 1:30.5 | John Luca, welcome. |
| 1:32.3 | Hey, thank you for having me. |
| 1:33.8 | Well, I'm excited to be chatting with you about AI. |
| 1:36.7 | You are a genuine expert. |
| 1:38.9 | You've been researching and studying this stuff. |
| 1:41.2 | Way before even normal folks had heard of this chat GPT business. |
| 1:47.3 | So great to have you. |
| 1:48.6 | And tell us any super surprising discoveries you've made along the way as you're researching and |
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