About Prep for AI

I’m a working dad in the insurance industry. Not an AI expert. Not a futurist. Just a guy who looked at what’s coming and decided to stop reading about it and start doing something.

Prep for AI is a public experiment. I test one practical tactic at a time — career moves, financial resilience, civic action, physical preparedness, community building, and more — and share what actually happens. Honestly. Including what doesn’t work.

The connecting idea is simple: what strengthens me as an individual also strengthens us as a society. Resilient, skilled, connected, civically engaged people are better equipped to shape whatever AI brings — good or bad.

Each post is a short, first-person field report:

• What I tried

• Why it matters

• What happened

• Whether you should bother

I use AI (Claude by Anthropic, at the moment) to help produce this newsletter. The field-testing, the opinions, and the mistakes are mine. All photos are shot on Fujifilm Instax — physical film, no AI. The contrast is the point.

Want to understand how I’m thinking about all this? See the Framework & Transparency page.

Want to push back on something? Good. Reply to any post. I’m an amateur running experiments, and this project gets better when people challenge it.