AI FIRST: The Tsunami Is Already Here

The Next Big Idea

Next Big Idea Club

Self-improvement, Arts, Books, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

AI, according to Andy Sack and Adam Brotman, co-founders of Forum3 and co-authors of the new book AI First, isn't just a neat new tool. It's "a tsunami of technology and capabilities." And if you don't start learning how to use it properly, they say, "you are absolutely gonna be left behind." The problem? Most people are using AI wrong. They're treating it like Google search when it should be treated like "an alien synthetic intelligence that can really reason and think and help you." In this episode, Andy and Adam share the mindset shifts and practical techniques that can help you harness AI to supercharge your productivity, creativity, and capability.

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0:00.0	LinkedIn Presents.
0:05.7	I'm Rufus Griscombe, and this is the next big idea.
0:10.0	Today, everybody's talking about AI.
0:13.1	How can you actually harness it to be better at, well, everything? everything.
0:39.7	Has AI had much of an impact on your life?
0:43.3	It started for me as a curiosity.
0:46.2	What exactly is a sonic boom?
0:50.5	It's the sudden bang produced when an object outruns its own sound waves,
0:53.8	compressing air into a single explosive pulse of sound.
0:59.3	How probable is it that democracy will actually collapse in the U.S. in the next decade?
1:02.6	Most political scientists peg it around 5%. Uncomfortably high, but not Vegas odds on.
1:06.7	Could I buy a charming apartment in Lisbon for less than $100,000?
1:10.6	Only if charming includes 28 square meters, three flights of stairs, and a bathroom the size of a phone booth.
1:17.6	I then started giving it more sensitive questions.
1:21.6	Here's three years of my journal entries.
1:24.6	Am I making progress? What am I doing wrong?
1:28.3	You are a high bandwidth polymath, making incremental progress towards several admirable goals.
1:32.3	No, no, no, no, no. I need tough love. I'd like to be verbally spanked.
1:37.3	You listen to me, Rufus, and you listen good. It's time to fire the cultivator of ideas and hire the finisher.
1:45.1	Choose two priorities.
1:47.3	Put every other dream in a someday document and lock it for 90 days.
1:51.6	Here's a 25-minute voice memo about our family finances.
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