Iwo Szapar

Hybrid Work Expert

AI Maturity Index

In a world where 77% of leaders won't consider candidates without AI skills, understanding your AI maturity isn't just nice to have — it's career-critical.

Introducing an AI adoption GPS - showing where you are, where others are heading, and your fastest path forward.

That’s exactly what we’ve built: a 15-min diagnostic tool powered by real-world data from thousands of professionals.

It's simple 
1. Chat with our AI assistant for 15 minutes about yourself and your AI usage 
2. Get an instant 5-page report with scores, benchmarks, and personalized coaching 
3. Run group reports for your whole team or company

Co-Creator

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of Saudi Arabia

Co-hosting a program for 22 Saudi AI startups in building production-ready AI agents from concept to deployment. 

Key Focus Areas:
- AI agent architecture and orchestration strategies
- Business model innovation for AI-native companies
- Go-to-market positioning in the MENA region
- Technical troubleshooting and implementation guidance
- Strategic planning for scalable AI solutions

Working alongside the Kingdom's Centre of Digital Entrepreneurship and Saudi AI Leadership Forum to accelerate the next generation of AI companies leveraging Saudi Arabia's unique regulatory clarity and infrastructure advantages.

Program Highlights:
- Weekly workshops on agent development and business strategy
- 1:1 coaching sessions with individual startup founders
- Office hours for real-time technical support and troubleshooting
- Demo day presentations to industry leaders and potential investors

Supporting entrepreneurs who understand that sustainable AI competitive advantages come from workflow integration, cultural intelligence, and solving real customer problems - not just having the latest models.

AI Advisor

Supporting the „Tech Founders” program

Startup Mentor

South Summit

Working with South Summit's global team to connect startup founders with investors and corporate partners across Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Part of a hands-on community that's built 100+ successful exits and facilitated over $17B in startup funding.

AI Ambassador

Saudi AI Leadership Forum

Together with 350+ AI Enthusiasts 🇸🇦, we are dedicated to exploring the vast potential of AI as Saudi Arabia embraces Vision 2030, fostering a community where ideas flourish and connections are made. 

Our mission is to empower each member through insightful discussions, expert-led workshops, and collaborative projects. Whether you're a seasoned AI developer, a business leader seeking to harness AI's power, or simply AI-curious, we offer a platform to learn, share, and grow.

Chief AI Officer & Founder

Remote-First.Institute

Fixing change management with AI. 

- User Expansion: From 319 users in Q3 2023 to 2,003 users (8% paying) in Q2 2024
- Revenue Growth: From $148 in Q3 2023 to $10,635 in Q2 2024
- AI-Assistant Deployment: From 1 AI-Assistant in Q3 2023 to 201 in Q2 2024

🚀 The Journey Begins

In spring 2023 we were looking for ways to productize the "Remote Work Audit" that we've been successfully selling for many years at Remote-how. We decided to experiment with how AI can help. 

During two hackathons with Google and OpenAI, we created a simple prototype and brought it to users. They loved it, so we continued building which led to the creation of AI-Mentor, and eventually getting into an AI Accelerator Program in Saudi Arabia. 

Today AI-Mentor is a change management platform designed for consultants. It offers AI-enhanced interview toolkits, multi-stage AI-Assistants, and workplace analytics. These tools streamline consultancy operations and improve client engagement.

🧠 Projects I lead within AI-Mentor:

1. AI-Powered Remote Work Audit  

- Insight: Productized the "Remote Work Audit" using AI-Assistants.
- Impact: Evaluates remote work capabilities across 120 essential areas during an async conversation with employees, providing deep insights and actionable recommendations to enhance productivity.

2. 30-Day AI Productivity Experiment

- Objective: Conducted a 30-day experiment where 300 ambassadors were given access to an AI Productivity Partner.
- Result: The AI Productivity Partner helped participants stay as productive as possible by managing their calendars, planning tasks, scheduling deep work sessions, providing daily coaching, and offering productivity scores.

3. AI Hackathons

- Initiative: Hosted multiple hackathons (virtual & in-person), engaging over 400 participants.
- Outcome: Empowered participants to build custom, no-code AI tools, significantly enhancing productivity and addressing workflow challenges.

Maker @ AI-Mentor

We are a not-for-profit organization on a mission to create a space with open-source and expertise knowledge about the remote-first work approach provided by the world’s leading future of work experts.

We launched the Remote-First Institute to:
- Counteract the global "back to the office" movement.
- Create Global Standards for companies on remote-first processes.
- Produce high-quality events, articles, reports, and analyses.
- Cultivate a global community for remote-first experts.

Head of AI Projects & Co-founder

▪️Advised 3,000+ companies, incl. Walmart, Microsoft, ING Bank, and Deloitte on how to work smarter.
▪️Spoke at 200+ events, incl. Global AI Summit, South Summit, The Next Web, Running Remote.
▪️Featured by BBC, Forbes, Prezi, Remote, HR Exchange Network, and more.
▪️Built a global community of 31,000+ people who believe work can be done from anywhere.
▪️Wrote a book "Remote Work Is The Way", alongside experts from Netflix, GitLab, and Mural.

Strategic Advisor | Community Builder | Speaker | Writer

Remote-how

Remote-how is the leading platform for remote work education and consulting, helping over 3,000 companies optimize their remote work strategies. We have built a robust community of 25,000+ remote work professionals and collaborated with 250+ experts from renowned companies such as Netflix, GitLab, Microsoft, Mural, and Hubspot. 

Our partners include industry leaders like Asana, Remote, Deel, Prezi, and Safetywing.

💡 Key Projects:

1. Remote-how Marketplace

- Overview: A consulting and virtual training marketplace connecting companies with top remote and hybrid work experts. The marketplace facilitates the hiring of experts for audits, consulting, workshops, and content creation.
- Impact: Provided companies with access to specialized remote work expertise, improving their operational efficiency and remote work practices.

2. Remote-how Academy:

- Overview: The first global, online education and certification program covering essential remote work skills and tools. The academy offers tailored programs for remote workers, HR professionals, and managers.
- Programs:
* Certified Remote Manager
* Certified in Remote Human Resources
* Certified Remote Individual
- Impact: Educated and certified hundreds of professionals, enhancing their ability to effectively manage and thrive in remote work environments.

3. Remote Future Summit:

- Overview: Until 2020, it was the world's largest virtual conference focused on remote work, gathering industry leaders, experts, and practitioners to share insights, strategies, and innovations in the remote work field.
- Impact: Hosted thousands of participants globally, providing invaluable networking opportunities and access to cutting-edge knowledge on remote work trends and best practices.

CEO & Co-founder

Microsoft

I hosted a series of open webinars and invite-only workshops about hybrid work best practices for the Microsoft community and clients.

Remote Work Advisor

I helped build the first in the company's history "Hybrid Work Playbook".

Walmart

I worked with the HR team on Walmart's CEO's remote work strategy proposal.

🚀 Remote-First Activist | Top 50 Remote Influencer | Since 2017, shaping the future of remote-first world

Aloha, I'm Iwo Szapar! I help build future-proof organizations at the intersection of AI and human potential.

🌍 Key Achievements:
- Transformed work approaches at 3,000+ companies including Microsoft, Walmart, and ING Bank
- Co-created the AI Maturity Index with Harvard researchers, democratizing enterprise-grade AI readiness insights
- Established the Saudi AI Leadership Forum and co-founded AI-Mentor to accelerate organizational AI adoption
- Built a global community of 25,000+ professionals championing location-independent work
- Created an expert network of 250+ consultants from companies like GitLab, Netflix, and Hubspot

My work gathered recognition from Forbes and BBC. I authored "Remote Work Is The Way" and have spoken at over 150 events incl. Web Summit, South Summit and The Next Web, while living in 15 different countries.

Born in Gdansk, Poland, I've embraced the 'slowmad' lifestyle that informs my perspective on the future of work. When not researching AI applications, I'm reading history books, surfing, or DJing with my dog Luna nearby.

Connect to explore how AI can help your company work smarter! 🚀

🚀Remote Work Advocate & Co-founder

Remote-how helps companies make remote & hybrid work, work. Since 2017. 

🤓 Remote-how Marketplace - the world’s leading remote & hybrid work experts marketplace. Work on your consulting and advisory projects with 200+ pre-vetted practitioners from top distributed companies. 

🚀 Remote-how Campus - a community where leaders of hybrid teams come to connect, learn and grow together with access to live leadership development programs, mentoring services, and more.

I've been using AI at work for 1,067 days straight. 5 months ago, I canceled  almost all my AI subscriptions and now spend 99% time with this one #vibeworking tool. 

Claude Code is all what you need. ❤️  

This post won't be about convincing that EVERYONE should be using Claude Code (don't let the "code" in the name mislead you: it's a game changer for all knowledge workers). Or maybe it will be? :D 

So... Claude Code is the single best tool on the market now to build and run AI Agents doing things for you like research, writing, brainstorming, coding and more.

My growing team of AI subagents (now 22) are connected to different software I use eg. Hubspot, Gmail, Calendar, Google Analytics, LinkedIn and more. So that they can execute tasks on my behalf.

But wait, it's actually something bigger. 

Imho it's the LARGEST PRACTICAL shift in knowledge work since the "ChatGPT moment". 

Claude Code enables you to build a personalized "Second Brain" with outstanding execution capabilities.  

It tackles the biggest issue with AI - #contextengineering.

Sounds complex? Not at all.

If you oversimplify this: it's a collection of folders and files with instructions and context to empower AI do what you want. 

Claude Code + GitHub (where you store your "brain" files with your work context, structured) have created the largest productivity unlock I've ever had. 

I've shifted my whole work to GitHub for context management (bye bye Google Docs and Notion), and combined it the power of Claude Code. And you should do it to… 

Comment below "CLAUDE" and I will share with you PDF with my ready-to-use setup.

Co-Creator @ AI Maturity Index 🚀 | Entrepreneur, Writer, Speaker 👨‍💻 | 15 countries called home 🌍

My Friday's post got 2,169 comments in 3 days. 🤯 

About Claude Code. The most underrated AI tool for non-technical people.

Here's the irony: only 5% of my work is code.

The name "Claude Code" is killing adoption among knowledge workers. And that's a crime because this is the biggest shift in how we work since ChatGPT dropped.

I've been using AI for 1,067 days straight.

5 months ago I canceled almost all my AI subscriptions.

Now I spend 99% of my time in Claude Code.

Not because I became a developer.

Because I built a second brain that actually executes.

Here's what changed:

The Problem: AI tools have zero context about your work. You explain the same thing 50 times. You copy-paste. You lose hours feeding context.

What I Built: 22 specialized AI agents living in GitHub folders. Each one knows exactly what I do, how I work, and what tools I use.

They're connected to:
- HubSpot (CRM)
- Gmail and Calendar
- LinkedIn
- Google Analytics
- PostgreSQL database
- 8 other systems

What This Means: My agents don't just chat. They execute. Run research. Draft emails. Analyze data. Write content. 

All with full context of my business.

The setup sounds complex. It's not.

It's just folders and markdown files in GitHub. Instructions and context. That's it.

Claude Code reads these files and becomes an expert in your work.

This isn't about AI replacing you.

It's about building a personalized execution layer that knows your business as well as you do.

The "ChatGPT moment" was about conversation.

This moment is about execution.

And if the word "Code" in the name stops you from trying it, you're leaving the biggest productivity unlock of 2025 on the table.

Want to see exactly how I set this up?

Comment "CLAUDE" in the original post - added in comments - and I'll send you the document with everything you need to get things going.

#vibeworking #claudecode #aiagents

"Hey, did you know that GPT-5 can now do 65% of your consulting associate work. Shocked?!"

That's the finding from APEX Research's September 2025 benchmark. Not hypothetical tasks. The actual work filling the first 2-3 years of consulting careers. Tasks like analyzing industries, evaluating markets, building strategic and financial models, preparing presentations.

The benchmark was advised by Dominic Barton (former McKinsey Global Managing Director) and built with experts from McKinsey, BCG, Deloitte, Accenture, and EY.

Here's what makes 65% significant:

It's not 50% (interesting but not actionable).
It's not 80% (replacement territory).
It's the threshold where AI becomes a legitimate productivity multiplier for senior consultants while making the traditional analyst role economically inefficient.

BCG is already reporting they're meeting output targets with the same headcount. PwC has seen clients pull back contracts, replacing "consultants of yesterday" with AI. By 2027, firms that hired hundreds of analysts annually will need far fewer.

The consulting industry built itself on a pyramid. Junior associates did the grunt work, a few became partners. AI just removed the bottom two floors.

The pattern is clear. AI handles structured analytical tasks well. It struggles with ambiguity, client relationships, and strategic judgment that comes from lived experience.

The question isn't "Will AI replace consultants?"

The real questions are:

1. If you're a consulting firm, are you restructuring for the "obelisk model" (fewer layers, smaller teams, AI-augmented seniors), or are you still hiring like it's 2022?

2. If you're a junior consultant, are you building AI fluency and strategic thinking skills, or are you perfecting Excel models that won't exist in 18 months?

3. If you're a client, are you paying for analysis (which AI does at 65% proficiency for $0.02 per task), or are you paying for judgment, relationships, and implementation expertise?

The firms that figure this out first won't just survive. They'll operate at 50% higher efficiency (per BCG's data) while their competitors are still debating whether AI is "ready."

The 65% threshold isn't a future concern. It's September 2025. The restructuring has already started.

What are you doing differently?

I stopped using ChatGPT the way everyone else does.

And it changed everything.

Most people open ChatGPT. Type their question. Get an answer. Close the tab.

Next day, they do it again. From scratch.

The AI has zero memory. You re-explain everything. Every single time.

I realized something: This is not how our brains work.

Your brain builds on yesterday's thinking. It remembers context. It connects dots across weeks and months.

So I built my own system. A repository of files and folders. My entire life, organized in one place.

Work projects. Personal goals. Meeting notes. Ideas. Everything.

And I connected it to Claude Code.

Now the AI remembers. It knows my context. My preferences. My standards.

I don't re-explain. I don't start from zero.

I just continue where I left off.

This is not just about AI. It's about organizing your thinking.

The repository forces clarity. What matters? Where does it go? How does it connect?

AI makes it useful. But the unlock is the structure itself.

Think of it like this:

ChatGPT is renting a hotel room every night.

A Life OS is owning a house where everything has its place.

You know where things are. You build on what you created yesterday. Your system compounds.

I call it my second brain. Others call it a Life OS.

Whatever you call it, it changes how you work. And think. And live.

The best part? You don't need to be technical.

Just folders. Files. Clear organization.

The AI does the rest.

If you're ready to stop starting from scratch every day, this is your unlock.

Have you already started building your second 🧠?

Unpopular opinion: We should celebrate job automation.

Most of the 4,000+ professionals we've benchmarked through AI Maturity Index aren't afraid AI will take their jobs. 

They're discovering AI can give them back their lives.

The numbers tell a story we're not talking about:

#engineers
- Top 10% using AI: 24+ hours per week reclaimed
- Average engineers using AI: 8 hours per week saved
#productmanagers
- Top 10% using AI: 20+ hours per week back
- Average product managers: 9 hours per week freed up

That's not "productivity gains." 

That's dinner with your family. 
That's your kid's soccer game. 
That's an actual vacation where you don't check email.

We spent 150 years building an economy that demanded humans work 40-60 hours a week to survive. 

Then we spent another 50 years pretending that was normal.

It wasn't normal. It was necessary.

AI just made it unnecessary.

Your grandfather worked 80-hour weeks in a factory because he had no choice.
Your parents worked 60-hour weeks at the office because culture demanded it.

You? You have a choice AI just handed you.

The question isn't "Will AI take my job?"

The question is "What will I do with the time AI gives me back?"

Family dinners. 
Hobbies they'd forgotten about. 
Relationships they thought they'd sacrificed for "success."

That's not a job loss. That's getting off the treadmill we never questioned.

We should do everything possible to build a world where humans benefit from AI to the fullest.

Morocco 🇲🇦  - it's good to be back ✌

#remotework #surfing vibes

Remote Skills Academy by Livit

An impact-focused education platform for Indonesians (and now expanding worldwide) who want to learn to work online, build successful remote careers and live life on their own terms.
Upskilled and reskilled 10,000+ alumni over the last 4 years.

Founder

Livit

CEO Livit International & Founder Livit Hub Bali

General Manager Project Getaway, Livit Spaces

Remote-first.Institute

A not-for-profit organization on a mission to create a space with expertise and knowledge about the remote-first work approach provided by the world’s leading future of work experts.

Founding Member

Bali Investment Club - BIC

Angel Investor

Plumia

Plumia champions global mobility rights for people everywhere and aims to build a country on the internet. Our work spans research, policy, technology, storytelling, and design, and we aim to bring about a human-centric future where a person’s birthplace does not restrict their access to work or life opportunities.

Member

Uncommon

Uncommon is a platform where the world's top female talent come to connect and level up. Our fast-growing community and action-oriented programmes are designed for the many facets of the modern successful woman.

Project Getaway

Curated, inspiring workations, retreats & getaway experiences in tropical Bali for entrepreneurs and startup teams.

Managing Partner

The P World

•	Launched and managed operations for the Azerbaijani market, including business development, legal & finance, logistics, recruitment & staff coordination, customer relations, marketing & PR, partnership initiation and delivery.
•	Worked with a portfolio of international event brands like the "Marketing Kingdom", "HR Experience", "PR Experience" which feature speakers representing some of the most recognized entities on the globe: the Royal British House, Facebook, Google, Rolls-Royce, the Olympics Games, Lego, etc.
•	Organized the first business excellence awards in Azerbaijan ("Excellence in HR", "Golden Crown Marketing Awards"); 
•	Collaborations involving the launch in Azerbaijan of "The Economist" publications; consultancy services for government agencies; public relations campaigns for projects like the first Hollywood star endorsement for a local brand.

Managing Director

Handled the local side of the PR campaign, business development and logistics for the first P World project in Azerbaijan.

PR & Business Development Manager

AIESEC Iasi

Coach

Managed a team of 6 people who was in charge of organizing a recruitment campaign, various conferences and events related to it, an induction program.

Project Manager

Outgoing Exchange Team Lead

AIESEC in Azerbaijan

•	Established media relationships in order to promote the AIESEC projects.
•	Developed strategies for strengthening the AIESEC presence in university campuses. 
•	Trained AIESEC members on communication, PR, marketing, project and event management, intercultural exchange, finance-related issues. 
•	Coached and mentored project managers, team leaders and exchange participants
•	Supervised and found ways to enhance the budgets raised for the country management office, local offices and their projects. 
•	Together with the other VPs, elaborated and implemented HR (especially recruitment and talent development) processes, tracking and performance appraisal systems.

National Vice President - Communication and Local Development

Founder of Livit Hub Bali & Remote Skills Academy | Future of Work Advocate | Speaker APAC & EU | WoP7. BASB14. Uncommon '21.

Over the last decade, at Livit, we've helped develop 100+ business ideas and dozens of remote-capable teams. 10+ million people across 60+ countries have been reached through projects started in our ecosystem. Headquartered at Livit Hub Bali, we have been ranked as one of Asia's Best Workplaces and received several other awards for our organizational culture.

The Remote Skills Academy, which I founded in 2020, is an impact-focused education platform that has equippd 10,000+ Indonesians and other youth around the world with digital and remote work skills. We are currently expanding via partnerships in Africa and Europe.

I am also a Founding Member of Remote-First Institute, an angel investor, and an advisor/board member to a handful of other exciting companies and projects.

I am passionate about the future of work. I believe that when we design more purposeful, sustainable businesses and lifestyles, we shape a better reality. I have spent the last 10+ years studying and understanding the mindset, practices, and tools required to make that happen, and I am excited to share my expertise.  I have received multiple distinctions for my work in culture shaping, leadership, and business development, including being a Top 50 Remote Innovator in 2023 and 2024, and my work was featured in publications like Washington Post, CNET & more.

My professional and personal experiences span 4 continents, 45+ countries, and several different industries. I am based in Bali for most of the year and a digital nomad/location-independent entrepreneur for the rest.

My fields of expertise are new ways of working, modern leadership, organizational design & culture, work-life synergy, sustainable entrepreneurship, human capital development.

Lavinia Iosub (Yo-soob)

In other news, I'm "going back to school".
Sort of. And not just any school.
Beyond excited to be embarking on this adventure: the Stanford Seed Class of 2026, a year-long leadership and growth program built for impact-focused founders / CEOs & exec teams by the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
The goal is to gain new tools, sharper strategies, and bold ideas to make what I'm building with Agnes Kay, Agung Deviana, Chalsie Janny, Johanes Raymond, Nafinia Putra, Nathan Tew, Syenny . and our teams stronger than ever.
Onwards and upwards!

Lavinia Yosub (Iosub)

Founder Livit Hub Bali & Remote Skills Academy | Built one of Asia’s Best Workplaces | Top Future of Work Innovator ’24 | Venture Builder & Angel Investor

I first read this article a few months ago, and I returned to it today, since it gave me so much food for thought- and it's probably the sanest thing I've read in a long time.
Joe Hudson is the top exec coach in the world and works with the people building AI/AGI (incl. Sam Altman). 
Here are 10 takeaways, many of which stopped me in my tracks:
➡️ Before AI, knowledge set you apart. Knowing more = earning more.
➡️ Today, as models swallow entire fields overnight, wisdom is what keeps you indispensable.
➡️ The people building AI understand a sobering truth: They are building the technology that will make their own skills obsolete. AGI will be able to do what they can do today—faster, cheaper, and at scale.
➡️ Our entire society is built around knowledge as a scarce, precious resource.
➡️ Now, you can get all the answers from AI, but how you use those answers takes wisdom - which he summarizes as these 3 skills: emotional clarity, discernment, and connection. 
➡️ Wisdom is how to live. It is the residue of mistakes, metabolized by time and reflection. It can’t be rushed, and it can’t be copy-pasted.
➡️ Promotions in the age of wisdom won’t go to the people with the most impeccable spreadsheet, but to those who can transform a team’s silent anxiety into aligned action. “You won’t be judged on how much you know, but instead on how well you can allocate and manage the resources to get work done.”
➡️ Too much choice stalls action. In the famous "jam study," shoppers presented with 24 flavors bought jam 3 percent of the time, while those offered just six flavors purchased 30 percent of the time—a 10-fold jump.
➡️ The world’s longest-running longitudinal study (Harvard) found that the single strongest predictor of both happiness and physical health in old age was the warmth of participants’ close relationships. In fact, quality of connection at age 50 predicted health at 80 better than cholesterol levels did.
➡️ Inner work isn’t just a personal growth tool anymore. It’s a strategic imperative. And it literally is the cornerstone of being happy - and living a long life.
Basically, in the age of AI, the most important thing you can do to future-proof yourself - not to mention increase your chance of being happy and living a long life - is to work on your emotional clarity, discernment, and connection with others.
Simple, but not easy.

https://lnkd.in/gEQFgtuM?

Open article: Knowledge Work Is Dying—Here’s What Comes Next by every.to

Knowledge Work Is Dying—Here’s What Comes Next

Being great at your job used to be the fastest way to stop doing it. The better you got, the less you got to do it.
You know it's true.
Well, it was.
Corporate logic: crush it at your job so we can make you stop doing it and manage people instead. Master your craft and we'll make you trade it in for a title - and a calendar fuuuuull of meetings.
A few companies, like Netflix or Google, saw the problem and built proper senior individual contributor tracks. But in most organizations, going into management is (still) the only way to evolve your career, make more money, earn more respect, status, etc - even if you are terrible at it or aren't even remotely interested in it. 
To no one's benefit: the result is an army of reluctant, overwhelmed, and often just plain bad managers.
Same story for entrepreneurs: do what you love long enough, get good at it, start having increasingly more demand for your product/service and suddenly you're approving budgets, running one-on-ones, managing teams who do it instead. Some of us love the challenge and thrive in these new 'roles', others  don't. 
Now all this is changing:
AI is finally freeing specialists from the tyranny of becoming mediocre managers.
Yesterday, during a roundtable at the Leadership Gateway, wonderfully put together by Anne Caron & Saranta, Reza Behnam brought up examples of fractional execs that can now join your business bringing entire teams of trained AI agents with them. 
Anne talked about coaching her clients to think in terms of capabilities instead of hiring needs. Then, going from there: do you really need a new hire? two, ten? an internal promotion? a fractional, a contractor? An AI-enabled workflow operated by your existing team?
Grace reflected on how the corporate question of "How much headcount can I get this year?" is quickly becoming well... passé.
Meanwhile, John Rush is running 24 startups with exactly zero human employees.
The need just won’t be there anymore.
If you’re technical (and I don't mean being CTO material - I mean just being good at your craft and good at experimenting and implementing digital and AI tools), you’ll soon be able to produce the results of a whole team - without managing a single human being.
Maybe AI won’t replace managers.
Maybe it’ll just make managing itself optional.
That won’t fix everything.
Humans will still crave mentorship, collaboration, and leadership. Some people will want to and be good at managing teams. But this might finally let experts grow without being forced up the (wrong) ladder as the sole available option.

I've been thinking a lot lately about “AI slop” (low-effort content churned out by generative AI without much - or any - human discernment or quality control). 

LI posts, Substack content, comments of all kinds, emails, "articles", millions and trillions of LI messages.

It's the digital equivalent of fast fashion: cheap, abundant, mass produced to fill up the racks and shelves rather than stand the test of time.

The key markers: saaaaameness, superficiality, wa-ay too many words. It’s not that AI itself produces “slop” by default,  it’s that when people use it lazily, the result is an ocean of beige that makes my eyes instantly glaze over it and start thinking about what to get for dinner.

Ironically, this slop flood we're all experiencing is.creating a new premium on human curation and originality. As AI slop grows, so does the value of anything that’s obviously written, designed, or thought through by a human with a spiky, non beige, non-vanilla, opinionated point of view. (And yes, humans _can_ use AI in the process of researching, producing and refining that.)

This week in positi-news:

Since June this year (which is only a few months ago!), more than 7,000 learners from across Indonesia, from Aceh to Papua, have joined Remote Skills Academy’s AI Upskilling Program. Each one of them is learning to use AI in ways that make a difference in their lives, such as:

➡️ micro-business owners creating product videos and visuals with AI tools, 
➡️ stay-at-home parents discovering new income opportunities while caring for their kids
➡️ university students finding smarter ways to analyze research or develop their papers. 
Each end-beneficiary reminds us why accessibility matters more than ever.

Across every community, we notice the same challenge:
❌ Many people think AI is too complicated or "not for them"
❌ Most learning materials are in English or feel far removed from their daily lives

That’s why we work hand in hand with our local implementing partners to make AI learning relatable and practical. Sometimes that means running offline sessions in small towns, bringing a list of real challenges and solving them together using AI during live demos. Other times, it’s hosting fun, interactive online trainings with quizzes and short breaks to keep everyone energized and engaged.

And we’re just getting started.

Big shout-out to InfraDigital Foundation, Nortis Academy, Aliansi Remaja Independen (ARI), the incredible RSA team led by Nafinia, Chalsie, Yulita, all trainers and mentors for your relentless support and dedication to this cause and to AVPN and KORIKA for making it all possible.

And yes, this has just been featured in Tech in Asia 😊

Open article: Uncover the changemakers imparting AI skills where it counts most by techinasia.com

Uncover the changemakers imparting AI skills where it counts most

🤖 AI Adoption: where do you stand?
Here’s your chance to find out, through a playful 15-minute chat with a Livit agent that maps your current AI adoption level, benchmarks you against global users, and gives you a personalized roadmap.
Built by Iwo Szapar and his team at AI Maturity Index, currently taking the world by storm!
Fun stuff, give it a try ▶️
https://lnkd.in/gYX-r7PS

Founder Livit Hub Bali & Remote Skills Academy | Built one of Asia’s Best Workplaces | Top Future of Work Innovator ’24 | Venture Builder & Angel Investor | AI-fluent, AI-skeptic

What happens when founders, climate geeks, investors, and dreamers sit down for lunch in Bali?
Ideas cross-pollinate. 
Unexpected collabs are born. 
The future (maybe) gets a tiny bit brighter.
We’re hosting an ESG, Sustainability & Climate Tech Lunch on Wed, Oct 22, 12:30-14:00 at Livit Hub Bali, part networking, part idea-jam, part delicious buffet.
If you work on (or are simply interested in) climate tech, impact, sustainability, or future-proofing the planet, come pull up a chair.

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Thoroughly enjoyed talking to Maaria Tiensivu from Purpose Driven AI about 
➡️ responsible AI
➡️ what we do at Livit  & Remote Skills Academy to shape intentional and discerning AI use in our team
➡️ how to turn AI into a massive lever and enhancer of our humanity (rather than fighting the losing battle of competing with it)
➡️ what skills to invest in to future-proof our careers - and more importantly, to enjoy our work and lives more.
Can't wait for the episode to come out!

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