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The Next Big Idea · 2025-06-26 · 61 min · 10,257 words

AI FIRST: The Tsunami Is Already Here

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LinkedIn presents. I'm Rufus Griscomb and this is the next big idea. Today, everybody's talking about AI. How can you actually harness it to be better at, well, everything. Has AI had much of an impact on your life?

It started for me as a curiosity. What exactly is a sonic boom? It's the sudden bang produced when an object outruns its own sound waves, compressing air into a single explosive pulse of sound. How probable is it that democracy will actually collapse in the U.S. in the next

decade. Most political scientists peg it around 5%. Uncomfortably high, but not Vegas odds on. Could I buy a charming apartment in Lisbon for less than $100,000? Only if charming includes 28 square meters, three flights of stairs, and a bathroom the size of a phone booth.

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