10 AI Survival Secrets (No One is Telling You), & More
The DOs and DON'Ts for living in a world run by machines.
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10 AI Survival Secrets (No One is Telling You)
This week’s LIVESTREAM show
10 AI Survival Secrets (No One is Telling You)
1. Stop reading, watching, or listening to the news.
It’s mostly clickbait. Headlines designed to hijack your brain, steal your attention, or provoke outrage.
The more time you spend inside these manufactured narratives, the less time you have to think for yourself.
2. Instead, spend more time reading, being in nature, or communing with your inner genius.
Clarity comes from quiet, deep thinking, and time spent with ideas that last a lifetime.
When you slow down enough to hear your own mind, you’ll realize how much of your thinking wasn’t yours to begin with.
3. Stop debating politics or current affairs.
These arguments rarely change minds or shed light on anything. They drain your energy and keep you focused on problems instead of solutions.
Choose more clarity, not more exhaustion.
4. Instead, have conversations with people who are creating, innovating, designing, and founding new projects, startups, or communities.
Talk to the ones doing the work. Their energy builds momentum instead of stealing it.
When you engage with builders, you leave with more capacity than you walked in with.
5. Stop complaining that AI is going to take your job or ruin the world.
Complaints are a form of passivity dressed up as concern.
If you’re only reacting to the future, you’ve already surrendered your role in shaping it.
6. Instead, learn how AI works.
Then find ways to use it to improve your life and the world.
The people who thrive in this new era will be the ones who understand how to partner with the machine, not fear it.
7. Stop being terrified that the world, the climate, the economy, and our institutions are falling apart.
That’s already happened. What you’re seeing now is the aftershock—not the beginning.
Your job now is not to grieve the old world, but to participate in building what replaces it.
8. Instead, start learning about the new technologies coming online, and how to use them to shape a better future.
Powerful new decentralizing tools are emerging every day. If you’re paying attention, you can help design what comes next.
This is not a moment to retreat. It’s a moment to prototype.
9. Stop pointing fingers at public figures you believe to be the problem.
Blame is easy. Creation is hard but worthwhile.
The future will not be decided by critics. It will be shaped by contributors.
10. Instead, get in the arena. Do something valuable, useful, and impactful.
Become part of shaping the future you want to see. No one is coming to do it for you.
Real achievement comes from creating something that actually matters.
Join us as we discuss the 10 AI Survival Secrets on today’s LIVESTREAM!
This Sunday on How to Win in the Age of AI 🕙 10AM PT | Live on Substack
This Week: 10 AI Survival Secrets (No One Is Telling You)
Misha discusses the 10 unconventional, counter-mainstream rules to help you stay sharp, creative, and in control in an AI-driven world. It’s not about hype. It’s about human agency.
⚡️ Show Segments:
1. What Really Happened in Tech This Week
Misha filters the noise and translates the headlines into clarity you can use.
2. Let’s Go Deeper
The main event. This week: the 10 AI Survival Secrets. Learn how to thrive—not just survive—in the age of machines.
3. Try This
Misha’s pick of the week: a book, app, platform, or experiment you can try now.
4. You In the Arena
Audience Q&A and project sharing. Come ready to ask, share, or shout out something cool you're building or exploring.
5. What’s Next
A sneak peek at next week’s topic—and how to stay plugged into the future without losing your soul.
🌀 Come for the clarity. Stay for the rebellion.
Hosted by Misha da Vinci—every Sunday on Substack.