Everyone’s doing AI. How many are keeping their power and agency while they do it?
AI is taking over more of what you do. From writing emails to building software. Where do you fit in?
If you’re looking for ways to hone and preserve your knowledge, judgement, skills and power, Doing AI Efficiently is for you.
The Doing AI Efficiently OS
This newsletter is a core part of the Doing AI Efficiently Operating System. The system closes the gap between AI’s rapidly expanding capabilities and your skills and knowledge. It helps support the optimal configuration: Humans + AI, where human judgement is combined with AI to achieve optimal outcomes. Learn more about the operating system and how it can help you here.
The OS is built on five operational layers:
Grasp: Understand how AI actually works, from tokens to model architecture
Discern: Evaluate whether output is correct, complete and accurate
Ward: Recognize and protect yourself from AI risks
Execute: Engage in the micro-actions that separate efficient AI users from the rest
Honor: Prepare yourself to accept responsibility for AI-generated outputs
The full Doing AI Efficiently OS will include software, tools and courses. This newsletter is at the center of the OS.
Who is the Doing AI Efficiently community for?
You want to preserve your agency: Are you in control, or are you being controlled? You’re seeking answers and a strategy. This is where you’ll find both.
You have curiosity: You’re okay operating at the intersections and having a multidisciplinary perspective
You don’t mind exploring: AI touches everything, and you don’t mind reading content that explores the nooks and crannies of this broadening industry
You’re okay with uncertainty: Honestly, this stuff is so new that we’re all making it up as we go along, so things will change
What you‘ll find here
The Doing AI Efficiently OS delivers trend analysis, software, frameworks and courses. My goal in creating the OS is to help you:
Gain practical skills that will boost how you use AI
Be clear-eyed about the scope, benefits and risks of AI
Gain confidence about the future and your role in it
Below are images showing some upcoming Doing AI Efficiently OS resources, including free AI behavior change tools, creativity boosters and premium learning experiences (interactive courses, and an AI skill-building game, Clankyopolis).
About the Doing AI Efficiently OS creator
I’m Fard Johnmar. I’ve been working in technology innovation for more than 20 years and describe myself as a futurist. I think hard about how emerging technologies will shape how we work, live and play. I’m also someone who has tended to live in the future, by being an early adopter of various technologies when they were still new.
I started coding back in junior high school. My first project was a simple game I programmed in BASIC. After college I was a Webmaster, creating and maintaining Web pages. Later, I used animation, alternate reality games and early chatbots (like Jaberwocky) to educate and communicate. When blogging was new, I started a popular healthcare blog. And, over the years, I’ve worked with thousands of people and organizations globally to help them understand and deploy technologies like mobile, virtual reality, natural language processing, machine learning, and other tools to improve health and well-being.
Today, I’m focused on helping to make autonomous systems in AI more visible, efficient and safe. I created the Doing AI Efficiently OS, which includes a research-backed AI productivity system, called the LLM Whisperer Method (Execute), and AgentGuard360 (Ward), an upcoming software platform that will deliver financial, operational and security optimization to users.
What you’ll get as a Doing AI Efficiently newsletter subscriber
A few times a week, you’ll get one or more of the following:
A long form article looking at a specific AI trend or technology from an efficiency and optimization perspective; many issues feature a free resource (usually delivered in the form of a PDF infographic)
Analysis and explanation of a specific AI productivity technique or trend
Interviews with creators, executives, experts and others focusing on how they’re using AI to make the world better
Information about (and discounts on) new tools, courses and other Doing AI Efficiently OS resources
My goal for you
I want the Doing AI Efficiently community to be a space where you can ask questions, satisfy your thirst for novelty and meet others interested in answering the question: “How can we do AI better?”
Thanks for joining us.
