You don't follow trends. You create them. AI is the biggest disruption of your lifetime.

Your signature project: Build a fully functional AI-powered tool for a local business that replaces a process they thought required a full-time employee.

Your AI persona is the disruptor — the person who uses AI to do what everyone else said was impossible. Define your alter ego as someone who challenges every assumption, questions every default, and builds things that make people uncomfortable in the best way. Your WHY is Challenge, and your persona should be bold, unconventional, and relentless.

You'll get proximity to AI by going where others won't. Attend the meetups that feel uncomfortable, try the tools that seem too advanced, and push every boundary you find. Get close to the people who are most resistant to change — they have the biggest problems waiting to be disrupted.

Practice for you means pushing every prompt past its obvious limit. Don't accept the safe answer — ask AI to go further, think bigger, challenge the assumption. Run the same prompt ten different ways and find the one that breaks the mold. Your practice is a constant provocation of what's possible.

Your best projects will be the ones that seem impossible at first. Build something that makes people say 'how did you do that?' — and then show them exactly how. The best Challenge project replaces something that everyone assumed required a human, a team, or a budget you don't have.

Your proof will be the projects that disrupted something real. One tool that replaced a manual process, one website that launched a new business, one system that changed how a company operates. When people say 'I didn't know AI could do that,' that's your proof — and it's the most powerful kind.