{"product_id":"still-useful-in-an-ai-world-the-human-playbook-for-the-age-of-agi-paperback-1","title":"Still Useful in an AI World: The Human Playbook for the Age of AGI - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKen Konet\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe robbery has already happened. You are in the middle of it.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThat is not hyperbole. Right now, inside every major enterprise software platform, large language models and agent workflows are quietly absorbing the daily tasks that built your career. The underwriter who memorized twenty years of policy. The analyst who owned the weekly report. The marketer who wrote the quarterly campaign. The paralegal who drafted the motion. Their work is being atomized into tasks, and the tasks are being sorted into \"keep\" and \"automate\" piles. By the end of the decade, the sort will be complete. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf you are a knowledge worker in 2026, you are either adapting or you are already behind. There is no third option. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSTILL USEFUL is the survival manual for the biggest labor transition in a century.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCorporate instructional designer Ken Konet (M.Ed., MBA) has spent twenty-five years figuring out how to teach working adults things they desperately need to know but really do not want to learn. In Still Useful, he turns that discipline on the AGI transition itself and delivers a plan that is honest about what is being lost, specific about what remains durable, and usable on Monday morning. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside you will find: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Three Pillars of Human Premium (Physicality, Accountability, Taste) and how to anchor your career on at least one of them\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA diagnostic framework for sorting your own tasks into A, B, and C categories before HR does\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Accountability Premium: why signing your name on a decision is the single most underrated career move of the next decade\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrompt Architecture and Agent Wrangling, two practical AI literacy skills that separate the hired from the displaced\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe White-Collar Autopsy: which jobs are in the blast radius, and which are safer than you think\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Blue-Collar Renaissance and the Care Economy: where the hiring is actually happening\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJobs That Do Not Exist Yet: a pattern-recognition framework for spotting emerging roles before anyone else does\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMoney and Meaning in a Post-Labor World: how to build financial optionality and non-work identity while the transition unfolds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Monday Morning Seven: the full playbook, compressed into seven specific actions you can begin this week\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlus eight appendices of tools you can use immediately: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e90-Day Human Hardening Plan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndustry Survival Matrix across sixteen sectors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrompt Architecture Starter Kit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReading List and Primary Sources\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGlossary of AGI-era career terms\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e25-Question Human Skills Self-Assessment\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePivot Resources and credentialing pathways\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKen's Personal Playbook\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFive real case studies (Dave, Marisol, Jamal, Eleanor, and Kevin) walk with you from the first page to the last, showing exactly which decisions separated the professionals who made it through from the ones still waiting for someone to tell them what to do. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou are not behind. You are early. The average American is going to figure this out about two years from now, which means right now, today, the world is quietly full of jobs, opportunities, and pivots that nobody is fighting over yet. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou are reading a survival manual while most people are still watching the trailer for the movie.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStart this week. Finish in two months. By the end of the year, you will have moved more decisively on your career than ninety-five percent of the people in your industry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou are going to be okay. You are going to be useful, to people who matter to you, for a long time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGo get Monday.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.74 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 21, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53878308405555,"sku":"9781966703327","price":25.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/wKgWQuBOvz9781966703327_c3151f1a-0612-4759-a61e-5fe80c81cc7e.webp?v=1787191676","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/still-useful-in-an-ai-world-the-human-playbook-for-the-age-of-agi-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}