Michael Pocress

I'm an AI Researcher based in New York 📍

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Technical AI Literacy: A Crash Course

A 15-module deep dive into how AI systems actually work, written for professionals who want genuine technical understanding.

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AI Tools Directory

A curated directory of AI tools organised by use case.

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AI Job Risk Calculator

Find out how exposed your role is to AI automation.

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The Punch Card Rule: What If You Only Got 20 Investments for Life

Warren Buffett's punch card rule imagines an investor limited to 20 decisions for life. The scarcity forces deep research, concentration in your best ideas and the patience to do nothing, the opposite of what frictionless modern markets encourage. You don't need a literal card. Just invest as if you had one.

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Generalist or Specialist: Who Wins in the Age of AI?

AI lowers the cost of specialised execution, so the bottleneck moves from doing to deciding. That favours breadth, but depth still matters wherever the model breaks. The durable profile is both: wide enough to use AI across domains, deep enough to go beyond it. Intelligence is cheap. Judgement is not.

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AI and the Wealth Gap: Acceleration or Equalizer?

AI is a multiplier, not an equaliser by default. Early gains flow to capital owners, middle-income work hollows out, and power shifts from labour to capital, within countries and between them. The same tools could widen opportunity, but only if access, education and ownership are designed for it.

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