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Announcing The Agentic Academy For Knowledge Work

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Jun 5 • Michael Simmons

"I'm Not A Programmer” Will Be The New “I Can’t Read" In 5 Years

Why Creating Software Will Be The New Reading And Writing

May 21 • Michael Simmons

Stanford Economist: AI Is Replacing Young People, Not Their Bosses (That's New And Devastating)

On a related note, my kids hate AI. After 30+ hours of research, I finally understand why.

May 4 • Michael Simmons

Most People Think AI Content Is Slop. It’s About To Become Caviar

According To A New Mental Model

Apr 23 • Michael Simmons

The Chat Trap: Why the Smartest AI Users Are Working the Hardest

You haven't hit a skill ceiling. You've hit an invisible structural one. Here's how to see it, and how to cross it.

Apr 15 • Michael Simmons

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Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Helps You Find Hours A Day To Write

Aug 23, 2023 • Michael Simmons

Augmented Reading: Learn 10x Faster And Better With AI

Jan 20, 2024 • Michael Simmons

Chapter 2: Misunderstood Masters: What Asimov, Seinfeld, and Other Extraordinary Achievers Reveal About Motivation

Mar 17, 2025 • Michael Simmons

Tutorial: How To Package Other People's Video Clips So They Go Viral And People Pay For Them

Aug 3, 2023 • Michael Simmons

Weekly blockbuster posts and classes on AI-First knowledge work and thought leadership

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I Built An AI System That Uses 100+ Mental Models To Analyze The News

I pointed it at the Block layoffs. What came back should concern every knowledge worker.

Mar 4 • Michael Simmons

This “AI Command Language” Upgrades Claude to Opus 5.6

After months of exploring and stress-testing “cognitive operations” with AI, I mapped the architecture hiding inside mental models

Feb 14 • Michael Simmons

You're Not Failing At Change. You're Missing 8 Dimensions, According To AI

Why Does Change Feel So Hard? AI Found the Answer.

Feb 4 • Michael Simmons

This One Article Written By AI Will Change How You Interact With AI Forever (At Least It Did With Me)

After 200 hours of "frontier prompting", AI wrote this article to help me understand it.

Jan 18 • Michael Simmons

This Is One Of My Most Profound Convos With AI

And It Has Major Implications No One Is Taking Seriously

Jan 7 • Michael Simmons

Augmented Awakening Year-Long Course

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Augmented Awakening with Anand Rao (June 9, 2026)

AI-powered skills for clearer thinking & decisions: use the Prioritizer to cut overwhelm, then a meta-skill that evolves from your patterns.

Jun 11

Augmented Awakening with Anand Rao (March 6, 2026)

Navigate AI overwhelm by finding your inner signal. Use paradoxical intent, body-mind grounding, and AI prompts to act from your own clarity.

Mar 9

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Augmented Awakening with Anand Rao (February 13, 2026)

AI-powered prompts for personal transformation using the Lattice model to reveal hidden dimensions, feedback loops, and blind spots.

Mar 7

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Augmented Awakening Recording #12 with Anand Rao

AI for awakening: final session review & growth. Explores developmental frameworks, balanced AI use, & embodiment practices.

Dec 14, 2025 • Michael Simmons

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Augmented Awakening Recording #11 with Anand Rao

Overwhelm as growth: transform chaos to clarity with AI voice dumping, organizing mental noise into actionable insights and evolution.

Nov 14, 2025 • Michael Simmons

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Blockbuster Live

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Blockbuster Live: How To Improve Your Productivity With AI (5/26/26)

AI productivity through mental models & systems: how to embed frameworks into skills, prompts, and agentic workflows to dramatically amplify output…

May 28 • Michael Simmons

Blockbuster Live: Blockbuster Brain

Build an AI second brain with Claude Code. Learn how to automate data collection, apply cognitive operations, and turn raw notes into blockbuster…

May 6 • Michael Simmons

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Blockbuster Live: How To Use Claude Code To Accelerate your Learning

Claude Code transforms how knowledge workers operate — enabling parallel AI agents to research, build, and create at a scale previously impossible…

Mar 1 • Michael Simmons

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Access The Top Five AI Prompts I Use When Learning, Thinking, And Writing Nowadays (Blockbuster Live Class #4)

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Dec 17, 2025 • Michael Simmons

1:30:02

Blockbuster Live (Class #3)

Using AI for blockbuster content & deeper thinking: Multi-perspective prompting, discovering blind spots, and creating distinct thought leadership.

Nov 25, 2025 • Michael Simmons

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Infinite Prompting 5-Lesson Course

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Infinite Prompting (Class #5): How To Create Infinite Content With Infinite Prompts

Apr 10, 2025 • Michael Simmons

Infinite Prompting Recording (Class #4): Use Cases

Mar 31, 2025 • Michael Simmons

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Infinite Prompting Recording (Class #3): Scaling Iterations

Mar 31, 2025 • Michael Simmons

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Infinite Prompting Recording (Class #2): Prompt Architecture

In our second session of the Infinite Prompting course, we delved deep into the four unique components that make up this advanced prompting technique:

Mar 19, 2025 • Michael Simmons

1:24:39

Infinite Prompting Recording (Class #1)

I'm excited to share the recording of our first Infinite Prompting class.

Mar 10, 2025 • Michael Simmons

1:52:27

Frontier Prompting 5-Week Course

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Frontier Prompting Recording #5: AI-First Thought Leadership

In this final class, we covered AI-First thought leadership and managing tension that arises when exploring AI deeply.

Nov 26, 2024 • Michael Simmons

Frontier Prompting Recording #4: Claude Conversation

Nov 12, 2024 • Michael Simmons

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Frontier Prompting Recording #3: Novelty Paradigm

In this week’s class, I did two things at a fundamental level: First, I shared a summary of the #1 book that has impacted my life over the last six…

Nov 1, 2024 • Michael Simmons

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Frontier Prompting Recording #2: Learn How To Prompt From A Profound AI Convo

Oct 24, 2024 • Michael Simmons

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Frontier Prompting Recording #1: Wisdom Of Crowds

Oct 19, 2024 • Michael Simmons

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100+ Luminary Video Lessons

Chapter 2: Misunderstood Masters: What Asimov, Seinfeld, and Other Extraordinary Achievers Reveal About Motivation

The top performers in the history of art, science, entrepreneurship, and leadership all swear by the power of Infinite Devotion.

Mar 17, 2025 • Michael Simmons

Microsoft's AI CEO: "Everything You Tell AI Today Will Come Back to Help You."

This article points to a profound insight about human intelligence—one that's about to become crucial as AI gains near-infinite memory and transforms…

Nov 20, 2024 • Michael Simmons

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AI-First Billionaire CEO: Building Your Own AI Dream Team Is Your Greatest Career Move

While most people are still copying and pasting prompts into ChatGPT, pioneers like Lütke are orchestrating entire teams of AI agents to accomplish what…

Oct 31, 2024 • Michael Simmons

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World's Top AI CEO: Smart Knowledge Workers Will Soon Have 2,000 AI Minds Working Alongside Them

Imagine walking into your office tomorrow and having 2,000 brilliant minds working for you personally. Not in some distant future—but now. This isn't…

Oct 28, 2024 • Michael Simmons

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Tony Robbins: Your Identity Is Your Destiny

Tony Robbins has been a top self-help guru for 30+ years.

Oct 11, 2024 • Michael Simmons

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