I started teaching when I was in high school. A close friend needed help with algebra and trig so we spent a couple of hours over the weekend going through a set of questions and solving them methodically. The next weekend, two more friends turned up. Soon, it became a regular occurence in my living room - a group of teenagers huddled together - laughing and solving hard problems. While my friends found these sessions to be useful - I found them to be invaluable. To be able to teach something well - I had to first understand it deeply. Teaching unlocked deep understanding. It was a great hack. And so over the last 30 years I have taught pre-teens, almost adults, college students and my peers. Most recently - two gentlemen in their 70s (one a father of a close friend, and another the father-in-law of a friend) attended my AI course for executives and entrepreneurs. I feel most like myself when I'm teaching something that I work on daily. And for me this is using AI as a product builder. Being an operator and a teacher is how I have always viewed myself. So it felt really good to wake up to the news that @MavenHQ had picked me as a top expert in the Product category. Thousands of students have attended my free lightning lessons, paid workshops and courses on AI and Product Management. I am currently teaching my signature course: Level to Product Super IC with AI and have cohorts open for all my AI workshops across June, July and August. And Maven is offering a flat 25% off till Sunday on all of these workshops and courses. PMs, engineers, designers, entrepreneurs and executives from the best tech and non-tech companies around the world have benefited from these and I can't wait to huddle with you and solve difficult problems together. So sign up now: maven.com/anshumani/ai-disco… (rated 5/5 by alumni) maven.com/anshumani/agent-sk… (rated 4.6/5 by alumni) maven.com/anshumani/levelup-… (rated 5/5 by alumni)

Doing a rerun of Bleach with the 10-year-old. On the Precipice of Defeat (Bleach soundtrack) still gives me goosebumps. What a show!

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The video from my most recent lightning lesson is now live on Maven: maven.com/p/c4bf06/setup-a-p… Two more free lightning lessons over the next two days. Don't miss out: maven.com/anshumani

Sitting at SFO airport and figuring out a personal curriculum to fine tune an open source small model (Qwen/ Gemma). Next few weeks are going to fun. But first - I have to survive another 15 hour long flight.

Looking forward to hosting these three lightning lessons on Maven next week. All free and all geared towards helping you leverage AI to drastically increase your output and as a force multiplier for your expertise.

Boston weather is crazy!

This is my third trip to Boston (and Harvard Business School) in 18 months. I don't have very expensive tastes. I spend on my family and I spend on education. (Google's very generous learning budget also pays for a big chunk of these executive education programs.) And I absolutely love being on a college campus - and learning from phenomenal teachers. Carving out time annually for learning is the best thing I have done for my mind and soul. There is learning by doing and there is learning on the go. But in addition to these one does need to be in front of a great teacher along with an inquisitive cohort of students. I have an intense week of studies ahead of me - almost 9 hours of classroom sessions every day, prep for 3-4 case studies for the next day and spending time with a study group. To me - this is the perfect holiday - especially given my work and teaching load in the months ahead.

Always such a delight to meet a CEO of a large company who is completely AI-pilled and leading from the front. You know the company is going to be alright. Enterprise AI adoption overwhelmingly needs to be top down.

"Not everything old is vintage." - 10-year-old pointing at me after I had explained the difference between old and vintage. Deep emotional damage.

So incredibly cool and inspiring. Being an AI builder in Singapore feels natural. This country is prepared for it and is embracing it whole-heartedly. And I'm not partial just because I live here and work at Google.

I have been building user-facing AI applications (including one of Google's largest customer support chatbots) for 3 years and using AI for product development in my personal time (and now at work) for over a year. As the kids say - I am completely AI-pilled. And the way I complete the learning loop in any domain for myself is through teaching. I truly believe that AI is a force multiplier for an individual's expertise. And the best time to learn is right now. Maven has introduced one-day live workshops which allow people to dive deep into any AI related topic - whether you are a beginner or on your way to building mastery. And I have two workshops coming up (along with a bunch of lightning lessons and even longer courses; check maven.com/anshumani): - 🛠️ New Workshop (3 hours): Build, Evaluate and Ship Agent Skills: Your AI's Superpower (at a US and India friendly time, 4th and 6th of May) - focused on product builders (PMs, engineers, designers, founders). The teams pulling ahead aren't using better prompts. They're teaching their agents. Agent Skills are reusable, testable instruction sets that tell AI agents exactly how to handle specific workflows: your deployment process, your code review standards, your team's UX guidelines. Write one skill well, and every human and agent on your team benefits from it, every time, automatically. maven.com/anshumani/agent-sk… - 💼 Exec Bootcamp (one day, four sessions of 90 mins each): AI Discovery Bootcamp for Executives and Entrepreneurs (US friendly time, 18th April and 13th June ) - focused on executives. As an executive or entrepreneur, you don't have time for generic AI hype. Your true value lies in strategy, stakeholder alignment, and solving complex problems. This bootcamp demystifies AI, equipping you to handle the mundane so you can focus on the critical work where your expertise matters most. maven.com/anshumani/ai-disco…

Speaking >> Typing I don't usually make videos while walking around a city. But speech-to-text has been a massive unlock for me both at work (which is all about building with AI) and in my personal projects (also all AI) and has meant a permanent shift from typing (which is now < 20% of my text generation). This video covers my workflow and tool recommendations.