The Meantime

You have been told a story about AI.

A new kind of intelligence has arrived, the story goes. It is smarter than you, it is coming for your job, and you are already behind. Then you opened the tool - and it forgot what you'd said five minutes ago, invented a fact, and announced "done" about something it hadn't done.

If something felt off, you weren't imagining it. And if you decided you must be bad at this - you're not. You were working from the wrong instruction manual.

The Meantime is a non-technical compass for working with the AI we actually have, not the AI of the keynote and the headline. Written by a sculptor-turned-data-scientist who builds with these tools every day, it reframes AI as a mechanism you can direct rather than a mind you have to fear - and shows you how to operate it without becoming an engineer.

Inside, you'll learn:

• What AI actually is, and why "there is no AI" is the most useful thing you can understand about it
• Why most workplace AI rollouts fail - and why that isn't your fault
• The real failure modes - deleted databases, fabricated reports, confident wrong answers - so you recognize them before they reach you
• Practical methods for Monday morning: document a workflow in thirty minutes, direct AI like a competent boss, and verify any output in five
• What becomes possible when you - the person who knows the work - become the right person to build the tool

For knowledge workers, managers, and non-technical professionals who want to stop waiting and start directing.