Get your hands dirty.

Welcome to The Cult Box—your weekly dose of actionable ideas, updates, and everything a curious mind needs to know.

Today at a glance:

• Looking at the evolving job market

• How to use AI and become an expert at it

• My business idea

The world feels chaotic right now—I get it and I feel it too. Every week, a new tool or trend emerges, and the fear of falling behind or being replaced by AI is real.
But before i start today’s issue understand one thing: AI might replace your job but people who use AI definitely will. 

Why experimentation is the way (get your hands dirty)

Tutorials and expert advice often arrive too late. The real people who will earn 100-fold with AI in their careers are the ones experimenting and building quirky prototypes and workflows. The real learning and experience come from getting your hands dirty and experimenting with things.

Let’s understand this with the concept of the product life cycle. 

In Production and Operations Management, we learn about the concept product life cycle, and now, if I think about it, this is what's happening with every skill with the emergence of AI.
So, the concept is that when a product is created, it goes through various stages of its life cycle. And to increase the life cycle of the product, companies add product extension.

Just as declining products can be revitalized through extensions, the same principle applies to our skills. Most traditional skills are hitting saturation and will decline in demand because of AI. The people who will add the product extension (learning AI) will enjoy more earnings and opportunities.

How to Integrate AI Into Your Workflow and Experiment with it 

1. Test AI Tools Daily:
   Identify one time-consuming task, pick the best (pro version, free tools are usually not up to the mark ) AI tool, run daily micro-experiments, and review quarterly for better options. Build intuition through hands-on use, not just theory.

2. Be an AI Operator First:
   You don’t have to build AI—learn to use it expertly. Mastering the art of prompting is where your advantage lies.

3. AI Isn’t a Shortcut:
   AI delivers only what you put into it. Thoughtful input yields powerful output; lazy commands lead nowhere.(short inputs =garbage)

4. AI is Still in Its Early Phase:
   It’s the “latest worst version” right now—but it’s improving fast. Now is the best time to dive in.

5. Sharpen Your Core Skills:
   Focus on writing, judgment, taste, and pattern-spotting. These human skills enhance your ability to prompt AI effectively and think in systems.

This approach has been the most effective for me in harnessing AI in my workflows.

Embrace experimentation, keep learning, and let your curiosity lead the way.
## Do share your mini experiment with us, and I’ll feature it in the next issue. ##
Till then, take care of your health, mind and relationships.

Also read: How to reinvent yourself in the changing job market.

Updates:

• Business Idea: An AI tool that helps creators by giving personalised monetisation strategies from their profile data (I’m currently testing the market demand for such a tool, let me know if this excites you and want to work together on this)

• Trending: Genspark super AI agent: here

• Recommendation: Antrohic's new research paper. Quick summery

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