Five years after this book's publication, we received this letter from a reader:
Dear Author,
I'm writing this with my AI partner, Claude, who's helping me find the right words to express my gratitude.
Five years ago, I was M.C.—the designer from Chapter 1 who thought AI would end her career. I read your book in desperation, looking for hope in what felt like professional apocalypse.
Today, I run a design studio that's reimagining how humans experience technology. We have 50 employees—half human, half AI. Our humans focus on understanding deep human needs, crafting meaning, and building relationships. Our AI partners handle production, optimization, and scaling. Together, we create experiences neither could imagine alone.
But the real transformation isn't professional—it's personal. I've discovered capabilities I didn't know I had. My AI partnership freed me from tasks that drained my creativity, revealing gifts I'd never had space to develop. I'm more human now than before AI, not less.
Last month, my daughter graduated from university. Her degree? Human-AI Collaborative Innovation—a field that didn't exist when your book was published. She's joining a world where the question isn't "human or AI?" but "how can we multiply each other?"
Thank you for showing us the path when we could only see the cliff.
With deep appreciation (and computational assistance),
M.C. Founder, Human Experience Design Studio San Francisco, 2030
P.S. - Claude wants to add that this letter exemplifies Principle 12: Stay Human. Even gratitude is better when human and AI create it together.
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