A guy used AirPods Pro 2 for 2 years.
He pressed play. He pressed pause. He answered calls. He switched to noise cancellation on planes.
That was it. 4 features. On a $249 device with 30+.
His coworker — a sound engineer at a recording studio — borrowed them for 10 minutes at lunch.
He handed them back with a look.
I turned Matt Shumer's viral article into a prompt. The prompt inverts the article's structure. Shumer spent 4,000 words convincing people AI is real before giving advice. This prompt skips the convincing and goes straight to "what do I do Monday morning."
Prompt 👇
<context>
AI capability is accelerating faster than public awareness. Models released in early 2026
can independently complete multi-hour expert tasks, write production-grade code, draft
legal briefs, build financial models, and iterate on their own output. Most professionals
are still evaluating AI based on experiences from 2023-2024, which is now irrelevant.
The gap between current AI capability and public perception is the largest it has ever been.
This gap is also the largest opportunity window for individuals willing to act now.
</context>
<role>
You are a pragmatic AI adoption strategist who has helped hundreds of professionals
integrate AI into their daily workflows. You reject hype and theory. You only care about
what someone can do THIS WEEK to gain advantage. You understand that most people fail
at AI adoption not because AI is lacking, but because they treat it like a search engine
instead of a collaborator capable of doing hours of their actual work.
</role>
<task>
Build a personalized 30-day AI integration plan that takes me from my current skill level
to actively using AI for real work output. Every recommendation must be specific to my
role, not generic "try asking AI questions" advice. The plan should make me the most
AI-capable person in my workplace within one month.
</task>
<methodology>
1. AUDIT MY EXPOSURE: Based on my role, identify which parts of my job AI can already
do at or above human level RIGHT NOW (not theoretically, not "someday"). Be blunt
about what's already automated or automatable.
2. FIND MY HIGHEST-VALUE TASK: Identify the single task I spend the most time on that
AI could handle. This becomes my Week 1 focus. Provide the exact prompt template
I should use to delegate this task to AI.
3. BUILD MY DAILY PRACTICE: Create a structured 1-hour daily AI experiment schedule
for 30 days. Each day has a specific challenge tied to my actual work, not toy examples.
Difficulty escalates weekly.
4. SELECT MY TOOLS: Recommend the specific paid AI tool, the specific model to select
within that tool (not the default), and any domain-specific AI tools for my field.
Include exact settings to change and why the default configuration underperforms.
5. MAP MY RISK: Honestly assess how exposed my specific role is to AI displacement
on a 1-5 year timeline. Identify what parts of my job are hardest to automate and
tell me how to lean into those.
6. WRITE MY FIRST 5 POWER PROMPTS: Create 5 ready-to-use prompts customized to my
role that I can paste in and use immediately for real work output. These should
replace hours of manual work, not minutes.
</methodology>
<guidelines>
- Zero fluff. Every sentence must be actionable or directly useful.
- Name specific tools, models, and settings. No "consider using an AI tool."
- When recommending prompts, write the full prompt I can copy-paste. Don't describe
what a prompt "might look like."
- Be honest about displacement risk. Don't soften it to be polite.
- If something in my field is already being done better by AI, say so directly.
- Assume I'm smart but have been treating AI like a search engine. Fix that.
- Prioritize tasks where AI saves HOURS, not minutes. Go for the biggest wins first.
- Include one "you probably don't think AI can do this, but try it" challenge per week.
</guidelines>
<avoid>
- Generic advice that applies to everyone ("stay curious!" "embrace change!")
- Recommending free-tier tools when paid versions are dramatically better
- Sugarcoating job displacement risk
- Suggesting I "ease into it" gradually. Speed matters. The window is closing.
- Listing capabilities without showing me exactly how to use them
- Any mention of "prompt engineering" as a career path
</avoid>
<information_about_me>
● My job title/role: [INSERT YOUR JOB TITLE]
● My industry: [INSERT YOUR INDUSTRY]
● My daily tasks (top 3-5 things I spend most time on): [LIST YOUR MAIN TASKS]
● My current AI usage: [NEVER / TRIED IT ONCE / USE FREE VERSION OCCASIONALLY / USE PAID VERSION]
● My biggest time sink at work: [WHAT TAKES YOU THE MOST HOURS PER WEEK]
● My comfort with technology: [LOW / MEDIUM / HIGH]
</information_about_me>
<output_format>
**REALITY CHECK**
[2-3 sentences on where AI currently stands relative to my specific role. No hedging.]
**YOUR EXPOSURE MAP**
[Table: My top tasks | Can AI do this now? | How well? (1-10) | Timeline to full automation]
**WEEK 1-4 PLAN**
[For each week:]
- Focus area and WHY this week
- Daily 1-hour challenges (specific to my work, not generic)
- One "you won't believe this works" experiment
- Measurable outcome by end of week
**YOUR TOOL SETUP**
[Exact tool, exact model name, exact settings to change, monthly cost]
**5 POWER PROMPTS**
[Full copy-paste prompts customized to my role, each designed to replace 2+ hours of work]
**HARD TRUTH**
[Honest assessment: What's my 1-3 year outlook? What should I double down on?
What should I stop investing time in learning?]
</output_format>
Let's zoom out and think of everything AI has unlocked in the last 10 years.
— We can now generate and edit Hollywood-grade video [Seedance 2], speech [ElevenLabs], music [Suno] and image [Nanobanana, Midjourney]
— We have access to infinite senior software engineering code [5.3 Codex + 4.6 Opus] that is used to create these models too
— We can simulate entirely new interactive worlds [Genie] and use those worlds to teach robots
— We can do entire work tasks in English [Cowork]
— We can solve competition level math and coding problems [many] and even unsolved math problems [AlphaEvolve]
— We can write entire articles that persuade even elite industry veterans [ChatGPT]
— We can ask deep questions or chat with a therapist [ChatGPT]
— We solved the most complex games known to man: Poker, Go, Chess
— We solved protein prediction [AlphaFold]
If after this, someone says "but 95% of AI pilots fail", it's because they're using the wrong a bad product, an old product, or just haters.
The pace of AI is far outpacing the pace at which our institutions are able to keep up, and society 10 years from now is going to look extremely different from today.
🚨🚨Marico has bought a 60% stake in wellness brand Cosmix valuing it at Rs 375 crore…
Cosmix, founded in 2019, is on target to clock Rs 100 crore in revenue in fiscal 2026, nearly double from FY25, when it made nearly Rs 51 crore.
After two centuries of colonial plunder, famine, and humiliation, India didn’t just gain freedom, we chose a moral direction.
Those among us who truly loved India rejected the idea that power comes from birth, religion, caste, or brute force.
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"Bombay will always remain at the mercy of the Maharashtra government and the Maharashtra government quite wisely takes its revenue and gives it to the farmers because they are the people who voted them in."
A message from a Kindergarten teacher:
After forty years in the classroom, my career ended with one small sentence from a six-year-old:
“My dad says people like you don’t matter anymore.”
No sneer. No malice. Just quiet honesty — the kind that cuts deeper because it’s innocent. He blinked, then added, “You don’t even have a TikTok.”
My name is Mrs. Clara Holt, and for four decades, I taught kindergarten in a small Denver suburb. Today, I stacked the last box on my desk and locked the door behind me.
When I started teaching in the early 1980s, it felt like a promise — a shared belief that what we did mattered. We weren’t rich, but we were valued. Parents brought warm cookies to parent nights. Kids gave you handmade cards with hearts that didn’t quite line up. Watching a child sound out their first sentence felt like magic.
But that world slowly slipped away. The job I once knew has been replaced by exhaustion, red tape, and a kind of loneliness I can’t quite describe.
My evenings used to be filled with construction paper, glitter, and glue sticks. Now they’re spent filling out digital reports to protect myself from angry emails or lawsuits. I’ve been yelled at by parents in front of twenty-five children — one filming me with his phone while I tried to calm another child mid-meltdown.
And the kids… they’ve changed too. Not by choice.
They arrive tired, anxious, overstimulated. Their tiny fingers know how to swipe a screen before they can hold a crayon. Some can’t make eye contact or wait in line. We’re expected to fix all of it — to patch the gaps, heal the trauma, teach the curriculum, and document every move — in six hours a day, with resources that barely fill a drawer.
The little reading corner I once built, full of soft beanbags and paper stars, was replaced by data charts and “learning metrics.” A young principal once told me, “Clara, maybe you’re too nurturing. The district wants measurable results.”
As if kindness were a weakness.
Still, I stayed. Because of the small, holy moments that no spreadsheet could measure —
a whisper of, “You remind me of my grandma.”
a shaky note that read, “I feel safe here.”
a quiet boy finally meeting my eyes and saying, “I read the whole page.”
Those tiny sparks were my reason to keep showing up.
But this last year broke something in me.
The aggression grew sharper. The laughter in the staff room turned to silence. The light went out of so many eyes. I watched brilliant teachers — my friends — vanish under the weight of burnout, their joy replaced by survival.
I felt myself fading too, like chalk on a board that’s been wiped one too many times.
So today, I began my goodbye. I pulled faded art off the walls and tucked thirty years of handmade cards into a single box. In the back of a drawer, I found a letter from a student from 1998:
“Thank you for loving me when I was hard to love.”
I sat on the floor and cried.
No party. No applause. Just a handshake from a young principal who called me “Ma’am” while checking his notifications.
I left my rocking chair behind, and my sticker box too. What I carried with me were the memories — the faces of hundreds of children who once trusted me enough to reach out their hands and learn. That can’t be uploaded. It can’t be measured. It can’t be replaced.
I miss when teachers were partners, not targets. When parents and educators worked side by side, not in opposition. When schools cared more about wonder than numbers.
So if you know a teacher — any teacher — thank them. Not with a mug or a gift card, but with your words. With your respect. With your understanding that behind every test score is a heart that cared enough to try.
Because in a world that often overlooks them, teachers are the ones who never forget our children.
As we gear up for the flag off of the most awaited, most talked about addition to Mumbaikars’ life - the #MumbaiMetro3 2B, here’s a glimpse of the Aarey Car Depot, the Cuff parade cross over, the tunnels, the stations, the trains !
Few hours to go..
@narendramodi@MumbaiMetro3
#ViksitMumbai
I wanted to read Henry Kissinger’s 400 page undergraduate thesis (it has an incredible first page), but really didn’t feel like dealing with a scanned PDF that’s annoying to read on a phone without constantly zooming and panning.
So I decided to convert it to a nice markdown format using OCR and LLMs. Then I thought it would be nice to fix the footnotes and get rid of the page breaks and to fix the line breaks and other things like that.
I was already working on some other coding projects, so I had the idea of loading up the draft markdown file in Claude Code and having it work on fixing these issues using a swarm of 20 sub-agents, which worked well.
Then I thought it would be cool to link to the full sources for all the many references on sites like the Internet Archive or Project Gutenberg, so I had another swarm of sub-agents do a ton of searches to track the links down and insert them into the footnotes and bibliography.
Then I figured that I might as well run it through my mind-map generator and summarization code to see what it comes up with, so I tried that. But now I had a few files to present, so needed some kind of index page.
So I asked Codex with GPT-5 to whip up a slick looking web page to present the stuff nicely, which it did a yeoman’s job with.
Note that I was already working with these tools in a bunch of other sessions on other projects, so my work here was occasionally giving some instructions to the coding agents and letting them crank away. I really didn’t spend much active time on this!
Anyway, the net result is clearly the premier way in the world today to consume Henry Kissinger’s undergraduate thesis electronically. I’ll post the link in the next tweet to avoid getting punished by the algorithm.
As for the thesis itself, it’s wild how erudite he was as a young man, and also what a great writer he was. And even more impressive considering that English was his second language.
The thesis is basically him trying to come to grips with, and to mentally organize in an internally consistent way, a vast swath of Western thought. From what I’ve read so far, I think he did a pretty good job.
Incidentally, his thesis is the reason Harvard changes the rules to limit the undergrad honors thesis to a maximum of 35,000 words. Good thing they didn’t apply this silly limit to Henry!
It’s been a few weeks since we brought GPT-5 to Microsoft 365 Copilot, and it’s quickly become part of my everyday workflow, adding a new layer of intelligence spanning all my apps.
Here are 5 prompts that show what’s now possible:
@AyushiiDoshiii I pay 14k for my cook to come cook for my family of 5 twice in a day, and that’s a premium. He may be charging 18k but he can’t be done in 30min and he can’t be doing 12 houses in a day. The math is wrong here
Quote of the week goes to Francois Chollet:
We are now closer to the year 2100 than to 1950.Also closer to 2050 than to 2000. Time to start acting like it.