1143: How to Build a Career that AI Can’t Replace with Aneesh Raman

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🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Aneesh Raman guides you on how to use AI and turn it into a competitive advantage.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why you shouldn’t see AI as competition

2) How to make the most out of AI in your workflow

3) What AI can’t replicate–and how you can double down on it

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— ABOUT ANEESH —

Aneesh Raman is the chief economic opportunity officer of LinkedIn, where he works with leaders across societies and sectors to shape the global response to the historic changes hitting work.

Previously, he served as senior adviser on economic strategy and public affairs to the State of California, led economic impact at Facebook, worked as a presidential speechwriter, and was a war correspondent.

A graduate of Harvard College and a former Fulbright Scholar, he serves on the boards of the College Futures Foundation and Shanti Bhavan Children’s Project

• Book: Open to Work: How to Get Ahead in the Age of AI

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• Book: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

• Book: Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World by Anne-Laure Le Cunff

• Past episode: 1010: Getting the Most Out of Generative AI at Work with Jeremy Utley

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0:00.0	You're going to have to bet on yourself.
0:11.2	That's the future of work.
0:13.0	The thing that starts at all is going to be that you believe in yourself and you're
0:17.3	going to bet on yourself.
0:18.8	And that's going to take some work because we are all coming out of an era for work
0:22.8	that wasn't about betting on yourself.
0:31.3	That's Nish Raman.
0:32.6	He's the chief economic opportunity officer of LinkedIn,
0:35.3	where he works with leaders across societies and sectors
0:37.3	to shape the global response to the historic changes hitting work. His new book, Open to Work, How to Get Ahead in the Age of AI, shares the skills that everyone needs to navigate the new future of work. So you'll learn, one, why you shouldn't see AI as competition, two, how to make the most out of AI in your workflow, and three, what AI can't replicate replicate and how to double down on that. And if you want a quick summary write-up of the actionable wisdom that Anish shares, I'm coming you sign up for the free Gold Nugget email newsletter found it awesome at your job.com. I'm Pete McItis. This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job. And now here's Anish.
1:12.1	Anish, welcome.
1:13.4	Thanks for having me.
1:14.4	Well, I'm excited to hear your insights about AI and economic opportunity.
1:19.8	Could you maybe kick us off by sharing what's the most surprising or counterintuitive thing you've discovered about us career professional folks and AI.
1:29.4	Oh, it's a big one. It's an existential one that we have internalized this diminished sense
1:34.6	of self as humans at work across the industrial age. When AI broke out, what now, three,
1:40.4	four years ago, immediately there was this great fear. Immediately the conversation was,
1:45.3	we're done. We're at the end of the road for humans at work. We've got this thing that can beat us
1:49.2	at these things. It's going to beat us at those things next. It's going to beat us at everything soon.
1:54.0	And I just sort of like intrinsically didn't believe that. I was starting from a place where for a long
1:59.9	time I had thought the labor
2:01.0	market did a horrible job matching town and opportunity, indexed on pedigree signals like your
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