A new book

The Minimum You Need to Do
Before AI Changes Your Life

A no-panic checklist for normal people in an abnormal moment.

by Guustaaf Damave

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Most people reading this have done zero to prepare for the biggest economic shift in human history. Not through laziness. Through the very human tendency to normalize a slow-moving change until it arrives fully.

This book is not predictions. It is not theory. It is a checklist. Seven chapters, each covering a domain of life, each ending with a short list of things worth doing this week. If you read the whole book and do everything in it, you will have spent maybe a focused weekend and put yourself meaningfully ahead of almost everyone you know.

Honest, calm, specific, and short enough to actually finish.

The Minimum You Need to Do — paperback edition

What's inside

  1. Is My Income Safe?
  2. The Threat Nobody Takes Seriously Until It Happens to Them
  3. You Can No Longer Trust What You Read
  4. The Conversation to Have With Your Kids
  5. Start Using AI — the One-Hour Onramp
  6. What's Actually Coming — and When
  7. Staying Sane While All This Happens
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About the author. Guustaaf Damave is a Dutch technologist and writer based in Taiwan. He spent decades building software, an activity he loved until AI became better at it than he was, at which point he became a supervisor and found the transition entirely acceptable.

He has been writing a weekly newsletter about AI, culture, and the future since 2023. You can read it at guustaaf.substack.com.