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we are tired today.

Mar 16, 2026

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1 min read

we are tired today.

No data. No frameworks.

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artificial Idea
We are tired today

Mar 12, 2026

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17 min read

We are tired today

No data. No frameworks.

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artificial Idea
7 months. Here's what we learned.

Mar 9, 2026

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6 min read

7 months. Here's what we learned.

What the data from August to March actually says and the one thing that mattered more than everything else we wrote about.

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artificial Idea
Learn anything 3x faster

Mar 5, 2026

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8 min read

Learn anything 3x faster

The professionals closing the capability gap fastest are not studying harder. They are learning differently. Here is the framework.

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artificial Idea
You are better positioned than you think

Mar 2, 2026

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7 min read

You are better positioned than you think

The dominant narrative about AI and careers is calibrated to fear. The data from the first two months of 2026 tells a more specific and more useful story.

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artificial Idea
Know more about them than they expect

Feb 26, 2026

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8 min read

Know more about them than they expect

The sales conversation that wins is not the one with the best pitch.

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artificial Idea
The moment your work starts looking different

Feb 23, 2026

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8 min read

The moment your work starts looking different

AI-augmented work becomes visible to the people around you before you expect it to.

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artificial Idea
Relationships don't maintain themselves

Feb 19, 2026

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11 min read

Relationships don't maintain themselves

The career asset that compounds most slowly and lasts longest is also the one most professionals systematically underinvest in

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artificial Idea
The separation is happening now

Feb 16, 2026

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13 min read

The separation is happening now

Six weeks into 2026, a gap is opening between professionals that will be difficult to close by mid-year.

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artificial Idea
How executives think through the hard ones

Feb 12, 2026

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16 min read

How executives think through the hard ones

The decisions that define careers are not the ones with clean answers.

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artificial Idea
What the survivors did different

Feb 9, 2026

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13 min read

What the survivors did different

The Block employees who were retained did not just have different jobs. They had made different decisions in the eighteen months before the announcement.

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artificial Idea
Where are you on the Block map?

Feb 5, 2026

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15 min read

Where are you on the Block map?

The three criteria that determined who stayed and who left at Block apply to every organisation.

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artificial Idea
4,000 jobs gone. Here's what they had in common.

Feb 2, 2026

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11 min read

4,000 jobs gone. Here's what they had in common.

The Block layoffs were not random. The pattern of what was cut and what was kept is the clearest map yet of how AI restructuring actually works inside a major organisation.

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artificial Idea
The feedback nobody gives you

Jan 29, 2026

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14 min read

The feedback nobody gives you

AI can now tell you what your most important professional relationships actually think of your work

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artificial Idea
Your job description is lying about you

Jan 22, 2026

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14 min read

Your job description is lying about you

The gap between what your job description says and what you actually do is either working for you or against you.

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artificial Idea
6 months ahead is not 6 months better

Jan 19, 2026

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10 min read

6 months ahead is not 6 months better

The advantage early movers hold in the AI transition is not what most people assume it is.

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artificial Idea
Your proposal is losing before they read it

Jan 15, 2026

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13 min read

Your proposal is losing before they read it

The quality of the idea is not what most proposals lose on. It is the quality of the argument.

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artificial Idea
The moment the market notices

Jan 12, 2026

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11 min read

The moment the market notices

There is a specific point in a mid-career professional's trajectory where accumulated capability becomes externally visible.

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artificial Idea
Your AI doesn't know who you are yet

Jan 8, 2026

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13 min read

Your AI doesn't know who you are yet

Every conversation you start from scratch is a conversation that could have started smarter.

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artificial Idea
Nobody gets promoted for knowing AI exists

Jan 5, 2026

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9 min read

Nobody gets promoted for knowing AI exists

The professionals advancing in 2026 are not the ones who talked about AI the most in 2025.

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artificial Idea
Every prompt we've published, in one place

Jan 1, 2026

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22 min read

Every prompt we've published, in one place

Forty-three issues. Hundreds of prompts. Here is the complete Artificial Idea prompt library, organised.

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artificial Idea
What the hiring data already shows

Dec 29, 2025

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10 min read

What the hiring data already shows

Annual forecasts tell you what organisations said they would do. Job posting data tells you what they are actually doing. The gap is instructive.

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artificial Idea
Your 2026 plan in 40 minutes

Dec 25, 2025

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17 min read

Your 2026 plan in 40 minutes

A structured prompt framework that turns the role mapping from Monday into a specific, honest, ninety-day development plan. No generic goals. No vague intentions.

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artificial Idea
The jobs that didn't exist last year

Dec 22, 2025

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12 min read

The jobs that didn't exist last year

Six new roles created by AI adoption that were not in any job taxonomy in 2022. One of them probably describes something you already do.

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artificial Idea
Few-shot prompting changed my outputs overnight

Dec 18, 2025

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10 min read

Few-shot prompting changed my outputs overnight

Most professionals use AI with zero examples. Giving it three changes everything

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