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Experienced professionals aren't being replaced by AI — they're being freed up to do what only they can do. Anna reflects on 25 years in corporate life and what changed when she finally tried it.
March 2026
Read: I Spent 25 Years in Corporate Life. Here's What AI Actually Replaced — and What It Didn't.Anna Rippon spent six months bluffing her way through AI conversations at work. Here's what she learned when she finally stopped pretending.
March 2026
Read: I Spent Six Months Nodding Along in Meetings About AI. Then I Figured It Out.Some emails just won't come out right. Anna had one sitting in drafts for three days before she finally tried something different.
April 2026
Read: The Email I Couldn't Write for Three Days — Until I Asked CopilotEvery AI article makes it sound like you missed something. You didn't. Anna on why experienced professionals are better placed than most — once someone shows them where to start.
April 2026
Read: You're Not Behind. You Just Haven't Started Yet.A month of noticing. Anna kept a rough log of the tasks she used to dread — and what happened when she started doing them differently.
May 2026
Read: 5 Things I Now Do in 10 Minutes That Used to Take Me an HourAI, LLM, prompting, hallucination — the AI terms professionals hear every day, explained in plain English. No jargon. No hype.
May 2026
Read: AI in Plain English: A Glossary You'll Actually Use