Getting AI To Work by Brennan McDonald

Build to Thrive caters to professionals and founders seeking clarity, leverage, and income in the new AI economy. It is built for people navigating real transitions and applying what they know to new opportunities as the rules of business change

The World as a System

A field guide for cleaning up chaos, building smarter systems, and surviving early-stage silliness with your integrity intact.

The exact playbook I used to build a $5K+/mo newsletter in 12 months. Every Tuesday, I share actionable strategies to grow your subscribers, build your community, and create income that scales. You won't be doing it alone 🚀

For Solo Chiefs—creatives, solopreneurs, and lone leaders orchestrating AI, humans, and chaos with no one to save their ass.

Essays on the economics of AI and technological change.

Weekly Reporting on the History & Future of Operating Companies

Life's complex. Our siloed systems fail us. Let's face the future better with a first-principles, multi-disciplinary approach to all-round intellectual development. Blending extensive research, light humor, rigorous subject-matter treatment, deep insights

Trying to make sense of AI, future of work and human condition.

Clear thinking on AI architecture, agentic systems, and intelligent organisations. Zero hype. Just clarity.

Blending a love of history, career in payments, and an insatiable need to understand how the financial world works. Views are my own.

I'll help you with AI and strategy. I run a company doing AI for the All Blacks, Olympic Team & the Stock Exchange

Weekly insights on AI, growth, and how to actually build a conscious business in the new economy.

News at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, technology and business including Op-Eds, research summaries, guest contributions and valuable info about A.I. startups.

Cut through the AI hype: turn signals into strategy, and strategy into growth for your business.

A systems-driven newsletter from a data engineer and cybersecurity thinker, decoding complex data, technology, and business trends into actionable insight.

Building or Investing in the Future? This Newsletter Is Your Edge

Don’t just read about AI, lead it. Get the weekly playbook for leaders who want to supercharge their expertise and multiply their impact.

A world made of gears. Doing both speed premium short term updates and long term world model building. Currently focused on weekly AI updates. Explorations include AI, policy, rationality, medicine and fertility, education and games.

Thoughts about the gig economy

Turn your decades of experience into AI systems that work 24/7 so you don’t have to. Every week, I help you rethink how you operate and build workflows that run for you. (So good, readers say they cancel their day when a new issue drops.)

Insights on project and product leadership from Big Tech to startups. For delivery leaders, managers, and tech professionals aiming to grow their careers and deliver better software.

Master your mind and your business... and design a high-performance life.

Stay ahead of the curve with insights designed for Chief Strategy Officers, corporate development leads, and innovation professionals. The Strategy Stack delivers curated tech trends, enterprise use cases, and actionable frameworks.

From Fear to Freedom: Weekly essays and expert conversations for independent entrepreneurs. Transform psychological fear into confident action through fearlessness, purpose, adventure, impact, tools, and community. On your own schedule.

Your weekly BOOST to Raise and Grow Like A Pro. Tips and Techniques used by prolific Founders.

Writing simple yet practical ways to use AI in everyday life and work.

The AI-Ready Localizer explores how multilingual ontologies, market intelligence, and data governance transform localization from translation into AI-powered, intent-driven global growth.

be not afraid of greatness

Knowing when to use AI and when to leave it the hell alone.

How top 1% startups raise capital and grow.

For finance professionals who'd rather fix the system than fight through another close. Weekly playbooks on how to build your own AI solutions you can use today.

Humanistic perspectives on AI

Break out of the chaos and confusion. AI Flight Plan gives you the exact building blocks you need to build a foundation that turns AI adoption into competitive advantage. Every week I share another piece of the foundation so you can lead with confidence.

Turn AI ideas into shipped products. Proven systems and showcase opportunities for builders who launch.

Global intelligence on data centers, AI infrastructure, and grid constraints.

A semi-daily report about the practical, real-world applications of AI, with a dash of speculation

Distilling what actually works when leadership, operations and AI collide - minus the buzzwords and the hype.

Practical AI guidance for knowledge workers: firsthand experiences with tools, context on what's changing, and how to customize automation for your work. No coding required.

I help Millennial and Gen Z professionals building careers in systems not designed for them. Get one piece each week that shows you how to design a career in the post-AI economy. Because careers aren’t ladders: they’re portfolios

A new way to think, learn, and work with AI. Not just automation. Not just tools. AI as a thinking partner, AI as co-intelligence. Subscribe to this newsletter to get access to our GPT, tools, and articles!

Thinking in public about AI, institutions, and decision-making—before ideas harden into policy, products, or harm.

Getting to grips with AI for non-techies in the world of commercial projects, programmes and business transformation.