Lost in the
Future
AI Cliff Notes for Gen Xers who won't be left behind.
Everyone's talking about AI. Nobody's showing you what to actually do with it. We fix that. One real skill per week. 5 minutes. No jargon. No hype. Just the stuff that works.
Every Tuesday. 5-minute read. Unsubscribe anytime.
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You don't need another AI newsletter. You've seen them. They tell you what happened this week in AI. They recommend 8 new tools. They assume you care about funding rounds and benchmark scores.
That's not what you need.
What you need is someone to sit down and show you how to actually USE this stuff. How to write a prompt that works. How to think about problems in a way AI can help with. How to build something real — not just generate a poem.
That's what this is.
Lost in the Future is a weekly AI skills newsletter for Gen X professionals. Not news. Not product reviews. Skills. The kind you'd get if your smartest friend spent the last two years deep in AI and then showed you everything that actually matters over a cup of coffee.
A prompting technique, workflow pattern, or AI thinking framework you can use that day.
Here's how I used this skill to solve an actual problem this week.
What to skip, what's overhyped, and what you can safely ignore.
Here's the thing most newsletters won't tell you: you don't need 12 AI tools. You need one good agent and the skills to use it well.
Not as a gimmick. As proof.
I'm Brooks Watson — Gen Xer, retired firefighter, business builder. I use one AI agent to draft, edit, schedule, publish, and analyze this newsletter. No team. No dashboard. No manual publishing. I built the whole system, and I'll show you exactly how in every issue.
Every issue ends with "The Liner Notes" — what I built that week, which prompts I used, what the workflow looked like, and how long it took. No black box. You get to watch someone build real things with AI, week after week.
If I can build an automated newsletter from scratch with an AI agent and 30 minutes a week, imagine what you can build once you learn the skills.
Everyone else spent two years beta-testing. They tried 47 AI tools, abandoned 46, and have three subscriptions they forgot to cancel.
You waited. Smart move. Now here's where you jump in — with the skills that actually matter, taught without the jargon, by someone who learned them the same way you would: by building real things and seeing what worked.
Join Gen Xers who are done watching from the sidelines and ready to build.