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Something Big Is Happening (A Letter From 2029)

Feb 17 • Michael Simmons

This “AI Command Language” Upgrades Claude to Opus 5.6

After months of exploring and stress-testing “cognitive operations” with AI, I mapped the architecture hiding inside mental models

Feb 14 • Michael Simmons

You're Not Failing At Change. You're Missing 8 Dimensions, According To AI

Why Does Change Feel So Hard? AI Found the Answer.

Feb 4 • Michael Simmons

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Perspective Prompting: How Reid Hoffman's #1 AI Advisor 10x'd His Decision-Making, Based On Research From Multiple Fields

“I once had a coding agent generate 100,000 unique expert personalities. It turns out if you create 100,000 unique experts, you kind of cover every…

Jan 28 • Michael Simmons

This One Article Written By AI Will Change How You Interact With AI Forever (At Least It Did With Me)

After 200 hours of "frontier prompting", AI wrote this article to help me understand it.

Jan 18 • Michael Simmons

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Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Helps You Find Hours A Day To Write

Aug 23, 2023 • Michael Simmons

Augmented Reading: Learn 10x Faster And Better With AI

Jan 20, 2024 • Michael Simmons

Chapter 2: Misunderstood Masters: What Asimov, Seinfeld, and Other Extraordinary Achievers Reveal About Motivation

Mar 17, 2025 • Michael Simmons

Tutorial: How To Package Other People's Video Clips So They Go Viral And People Pay For Them

Aug 3, 2023 • Michael Simmons

Weekly blockbuster posts and classes on AI-First knowledge work and thought leadership

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What 10,000 Hours of AI Testing Revealed To Ruben Hassid, The Internet's #1 AI Education Curator

500+ people showed up for a recent Cozora Substack Live I co-facilitated with Claudia Faith and Ruben Hassid. The energy was electric.

Jan 6 • Michael Simmons, Claudia Faith, and Ruben Hassid

This Is One Of My Most Profound Convos With AI

And It Has Major Implications No One Is Taking Seriously

Jan 7 • Michael Simmons

The Largest Religion In 10 Years Won’t Be Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Atheism

We are on the cusp of a new religious age brought on by AI, but most people don’t realize it…

Dec 15, 2025 • Michael Simmons

10,000x Knowledge Worker: How History's Forgotten Productivity Secret Reveals AI's True Potential

There Are 5 Levels Of AI Productivity, And Most People Are Stuck In Level One, But They Have No Idea

Jun 6, 2025

The Prompt Leadership Revolution: Why The Next Generation Of Thought Leaders Will Create Tools, Not Content

I recently discovered something that fundamentally changed how I think about thought leadership. Here's what I learned—and why I believe we're at the…

May 21, 2025 • Michael Simmons

Infinite Devotion Book

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Chapter #3: What Feynman, Chappelle, and Rowling Know About Success That Harvard Doesn't Teach

Introducing Achievement Syndrome—The Hidden Tax on Conventional Success That's Silently Draining Your Life And Career

Apr 9, 2025 • Michael Simmons

Chapter #2: Isaac Asimov Wrote 504 World-Changing Books Without Goals, Deadlines, Or Time Management

Asimov reveals a profound truth: greatness comes not from managing your time, but from allowing your attention to flow naturally to what energizes you…

Mar 29, 2025 • Michael Simmons

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MY NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT / Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen Challenges The 10,000-Hour Rule And Writes "New" Rules For Effortless Mastery

Top performers don't grind through discipline—they tap into "Infinite Devotion," a state where genuine fascination creates deeper expertise and greater…

Mar 16, 2025 • Michael Simmons

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Infinite Prompting 5-Lesson Course

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Infinite Prompting (Class #5): How To Create Infinite Content With Infinite Prompts

Apr 10, 2025 • Michael Simmons

Infinite Prompting Recording (Class #4): Use Cases

Mar 31, 2025 • Michael Simmons

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Infinite Prompting Recording (Class #3): Scaling Iterations

Mar 31, 2025 • Michael Simmons

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Infinite Prompting Recording (Class #2): Prompt Architecture

In our second session of the Infinite Prompting course, we delved deep into the four unique components that make up this advanced prompting technique:

Mar 19, 2025 • Michael Simmons

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Infinite Prompting Recording (Class #1)

I'm excited to share the recording of our first Infinite Prompting class.

Mar 10, 2025 • Michael Simmons

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Augmented Awakening Year-Long Course

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Augmented Awakening Recording #12 with Anand Rao

AI for awakening: final session review & growth. Explores developmental frameworks, balanced AI use, & embodiment practices.

Dec 14, 2025 • Michael Simmons

Augmented Awakening Recording #11 with Anand Rao

Overwhelm as growth: transform chaos to clarity with AI voice dumping, organizing mental noise into actionable insights and evolution.

Nov 14, 2025 • Michael Simmons

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Augmented Awakening Recording #10 with Anand Rao

AI adoption as emotional growth & awakening tool: developing meta-skills for uncertainty, using AI to overcome AI overwhelm, building new maps.

Oct 15, 2025 • Michael Simmons

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Augmented Awakening Recording #8 with Anand Rao

Testing limits through AI-assisted recursive evolution by questioning assumptions, releasing constraints, and expanding creative possibilities.

Sep 24, 2025 • Michael Simmons

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Augmented Awakening Recording #9 with Anand Rao

Using AI consciously for personal growth and wisdom, staying centered in your own truth while leveraging persuasive tech skillfully.

Sep 24, 2025 • Michael Simmons

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Frontier Prompting 5-Week Course

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Frontier Prompting Recording #5: AI-First Thought Leadership

In this final class, we covered AI-First thought leadership and managing tension that arises when exploring AI deeply.

Nov 26, 2024 • Michael Simmons

Frontier Prompting Recording #4: Claude Conversation

Nov 12, 2024 • Michael Simmons

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Frontier Prompting Recording #3: Novelty Paradigm

In this week’s class, I did two things at a fundamental level: First, I shared a summary of the #1 book that has impacted my life over the last six…

Nov 1, 2024 • Michael Simmons

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Frontier Prompting Recording #2: Learn How To Prompt From A Profound AI Convo

Oct 24, 2024 • Michael Simmons

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Frontier Prompting Recording #1: Wisdom Of Crowds

Oct 19, 2024 • Michael Simmons

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100+ Luminary Video Lessons

Chapter 2: Misunderstood Masters: What Asimov, Seinfeld, and Other Extraordinary Achievers Reveal About Motivation

The top performers in the history of art, science, entrepreneurship, and leadership all swear by the power of Infinite Devotion.

Mar 17, 2025 • Michael Simmons

Microsoft's AI CEO: "Everything You Tell AI Today Will Come Back to Help You."

This article points to a profound insight about human intelligence—one that's about to become crucial as AI gains near-infinite memory and transforms…

Nov 20, 2024 • Michael Simmons

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AI-First Billionaire CEO: Building Your Own AI Dream Team Is Your Greatest Career Move

While most people are still copying and pasting prompts into ChatGPT, pioneers like Lütke are orchestrating entire teams of AI agents to accomplish what…

Oct 31, 2024 • Michael Simmons

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World's Top AI CEO: Smart Knowledge Workers Will Soon Have 2,000 AI Minds Working Alongside Them

Imagine walking into your office tomorrow and having 2,000 brilliant minds working for you personally. Not in some distant future—but now. This isn't…

Oct 28, 2024 • Michael Simmons

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Tony Robbins: Your Identity Is Your Destiny

Tony Robbins has been a top self-help guru for 30+ years.

Oct 11, 2024 • Michael Simmons

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