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AI literacy for non-technical teams
How people who don't build AI can use it well, judge its output and fit it into real work.
30 to 45 minutes
Carson McKee identifies the systems beneath business and culture.
The standard advice is to post more and tell more people. New research from the Post-Industrial School found that founders spend the most time in the places least able to produce opportunity, and the least time in the places that produce the most. The missing variable is the environment: L = D × T × e.
This talk gives audiences three tests for any space their people spend time in, physical or digital, and a way to redesign where their hours go.
Based on Luck Surface Area_Revised, funded by the Langara College ARC Research Fund. DOI
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Carson McKee is a digital culture analyst and marketing instructor at Langara College and BCIT, and a former senior strategist at Cult Collective and Major Tom, working with national brands. He runs the Post-Industrial School, sits on the Langara College AI Council and writes Understanding Digital Culture on Substack.
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