Welcome: Keeping Up with AI

Learning Objectives Understand why a system for staying current matters more than consuming more content Know what this playbook covers and how it differs from "follow these 50 accounts" Feel confident that 30 minutes per week is enough to stay meaningfully informed The Information Overload Problem AI generates more news in a week than most fields generate in a year. Every day there are new model launches, product updates, research papers, funding rounds, regulatory developments, opinion pieces, and viral demos. If you tried to follow all of it, AI news would become your full-time job. Most people respond in one of two ways: Try to follow everything — subscribe to 10 newsletters, follow 50 accounts, read every announcement. Result: burnout, information overload, and paradoxically less understanding because you never have time to think about what you read. Give up and ignore it — decide it is too much and check out entirely. Result: you wake up one morning and your industry has changed while you were not looking. This playbook offers a third way: a sustainable system that keeps you meaningfully informed in about 30 minutes per week. What You Will Learn Seven lessons that build a sustainable AI awareness system: Curated resources — the best newsletters, channels, and sources worth following Your AI information diet — what to follow, what to ignore, and how much time to spend Reading AI news like a pro — how to interpret announcements, benchmark claims, and hype cycles Near-term predictions — what is…