Don’t Learn AI. Play With It.
Tweet · Apr 30, 2026
If you are overwhelmed and don't know where to even start with learning AI, read this.
First, just for background, I received a message from someone telling me
I'm drinking from the firehose and drowning a little.
There's so much info out there and I can't figure out where to actually start
This was my response. Almost verbatim:
This is exactly what I think makes someone successful in this forming industry right now.
It's not the tools that you know necessarily. It's your ability to conceptualize the big picture with what's happening with AI right now. Knowing each and every tool doesn't matter.
What matters is: what can you do for a business using what you know is out there and what you know is possible. Think MACRO not micro.
It's a lot. but If you can turn this learning process into "play time" and make this fun for you, then it will become much easier to soak it up. Learn by doing it for yourself and for your own projects and then translate that to others.
There's too much to stay completely up to date on, but if it's fun and you are consistently building projects of your own, just by proxy, you'll stay pretty up to date.