About

The who and why behind this site.

I'm a father of two (that's me with the hat, according to my daughter when she was 9). My kids are growing up with tools that didn't exist a few years ago, and they'll enter a workforce that looks quite different from today's. I also work with adults whose livelihoods depend on adapting to these changes in real time.

Paper cutout portrait by Zo's daughter, age 9

I'm building resources for people trying to understand AI without the jargon or the sales pitch. I'm also sharing what I'm learning. For example, I experienced the downside of cognitive offloading (letting a tool do the thinking, like relying on GPS until you can't drive without it) before it was a trending topic. I used AI to research human-computer interaction (HCI), knew the risk of letting it do too much of the thinking, planned around it, and still came out the other side remembering almost none of it. I missed most of what I set out to learn about HCI, but I learned what cognitive offloading feels like (I can't talk about it because it's not in my brain).

I've had this runningstart.ai site for a few years, but the internet is flooded with free AI resources and I didn't want to add to the noise. Then why add to it now? Because the flood causes paralysis. So I'm keeping this simple. A few resources per topic, and what I'm learning along the way.

~Conzolo Migliozzi
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