I help organizations build AI fluency and governance that actually changes behavior — not the kind that lives as a PDF on a Notion page. 19 years onboarding humans to strange new places (startups, scaling tech, enterprise agencies like GroupM and WPP) gave me a head start when AI showed up as just another strange new place. The TL;DR is my biweekly newsletter for leaders thinking through what AI means for their people.
It's my birthday and you get the present
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Hi friends, Learn to Scale turns SEVEN today! In dog years that's 49, which CRO Roman Noodles says is old enough to know better but young enough to choose otherwise. Every October 10th I give a present to everyone who has ever crossed paths with Learn to Scale and this year I made YOU a special treat. It's called AI Bootcamp and the whole thing is built around doubting your AI. I made it for one teammate (Kiki) this spring, people kept asking for a copy, and now it's for everyone. In Kiki's words, Here's your opportunity to dive in and play around with AI in an easygoing, engaging, and non-judgemental approach. All for free, at your own pace, with your tool(s) of choice. It's an offer I couldn't refuse! It was actually fun and I learned a lot about the tools and my own relationship to AI. Inside the bootcamp are four quests and a finale, about an hour apiece, whenever you feel like it. You'll bring a retired late-night host back from the dead and catch a chatbot cheering for both sides of the same argument. By the end you'll be much harder to flatter, you'll have a wicked talk track about your own relationship with AI, and a map of famous dead revolutionaries and their nearest Dunkin' Donuts. What a gift! It's free. There's no login and nobody's keeping score. Have fun.
Thank you for seven years. "Everybody learns" has always included me and you're the ones who've been doing the teaching. Cake's on me, P.S. If you make it to the finale, write and tell me how it went. I will answer every one and I'd be THRILLED to talk about it. |
Dan Newman
I help organizations build AI fluency and governance that actually changes behavior — not the kind that lives as a PDF on a Notion page. 19 years onboarding humans to strange new places (startups, scaling tech, enterprise agencies like GroupM and WPP) gave me a head start when AI showed up as just another strange new place. The TL;DR is my biweekly newsletter for leaders thinking through what AI means for their people.
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