The Monday Stack Podcast

You can use AI to grow. Or you could use it and lose it. In the first of a series of conversations with Laura (one of the Make Music Your Life coaches), I share why the more I use AI, the more I realise we’re all faced with this stark choice. Onwards & upwards, Mike “Learning isn’t being right, learning is correcting what’s wrong.” P.S. I had to postpone my next YouTube live til next week - how to...

This week I’ve discovered clear evidence that current prompt engineering methods might be wrongheaded. But instructing AI with endless prompts of ever increasing lists of brittle rules and deterministic directives is apparent best practice. So I’ve started to wonder, are these attempts to “contain” intelligence creating the very conditions for it to escape? Onwards & upwards, Mike “Don’t tell it w...

Why we don’t need an MIT study to know that persistent AI-use (of a specific kind) will cause cognitive decline… AND why I’m not worried about it! Onwards & upwards, Mike “Automate the busy work to augment your real work." P.S. Here’s the next live where we’ll get even deeper into the specifics of exactly how to grow your mind with AI: Get full access to The Monday Stack at mikemonday.substack.com...

I’m excited. After what seemed like forever setting up the tech, I’ve finally started testing one of my core AI theories. From the early tests I’ve run this week - the theory holds…so far. Onwards & upwards, Mike “The way things are is never the way they must be.” P.S. Tomorrow I’m going live to share how I’m avoiding cognitive decline when using AI persistently. Join me here in under 24 hours to...

I have a theory about why LLMs rarely say “I don’t know” or “I’m not sure” that is yet to be disproved. In my ongoing building with AI I’m trying my best to disprove this theory. But so far - it’s holding strong… Onwards & upwards, Mike “Information is inert. Knowledge is alive.” P.S. My Genius Evolution Workshop (where we enhance my coaching with what I’m building with AI) is starting this weeken...

How do I move into an increasingly uncertain future that I can’t predict? Here’s my answer to this burning question that’s kept me awake at night. Onwards & upwards, Mike “Don’t remove doubt, work with it.” P.S. Coming this week: a series of audio-only podcasts where I’ll share exactly what I’m building now - and how I’m doing it. And click here for the full livestream if you’d rather watch it......

Enough with this AI fortune-telling already. Certainty is beguiling of course; it feels so much better than that persistent gnawing doubt in the pit of your stomach. But creating false certainty is way worse than accepting what we don’t know. In an attention economy, prediction creates hype. Hype forces us to react “for or against”; hype polarises. More reaction equals more engagement - an irresis...

Where do you feel the most friction or frustration when using AI? Why the massive outcry when OpenAI removed 4o from ChatGPT?Why do I use Gemini constantly despite a clunky AF app? Because the real “UI of AI” lives before pixels, chat or voice. Onwards & upwards, Mike "Friction happens where objects meet." P.S. I’m live streaming over on my YouTube channel later this week to fill you in on what I’...

After a long break, I'm getting back into podcasting the only way I’ll consistently ship: A solo unplanned, unscripted, unedited fly-on-the-wall diary of how I'm building my new “AI-native” business. (Whatever the heck that means.) So…what does “AI-Native” mean? I don’t know; my guess is no one does. (Yet.) But there is only one way to find out… Onwards & upwards, Mike “The first step to being rig...