Today’s Agenda

I’m thrilled to let you know that my book is available! Learn more below.

This week, we’ll cover:

  • 🛠 Career Strategy: The Invisible Advantage is finally available!

  • 🤖 AI Tactic: The weirdest AI hallucination I’ve ever seen

  • 🧠 Curiosity Corner: The Initiation Well in Sintra, Portugal

  • 💼 Job Board: Directors Making Dough 🤑

Let’s dive in.

CAREER STRATEGY
The Invisible Advantage is finally available!

If you’ve followed this newsletter for a while, you probably know I’ve spent the last 18 months writing a book. It’s called The Invisible Advantage: How A-Players Navigate the Job Market in the Age of AI.

I’m thrilled to tell you it’s finally available on Amazon, as of yesterday!

I also convinced my publisher to knock the cost down to $0.99 from a sticker price of $8.99, until we release the paperback and hardcover editions at the end of April.

Your support would mean the world to me, and selling just a few more copies would get me onto the Amazon Bestseller list!

AI TACTIC
The weirdest AI hallucination I’ve ever seen

Recently, I was trying to get Claude to help me on automating a workflow in Make.com. The workflow was already running, had a significant error, and was impacting real customers. So I had to solve it fast.

I turned to Claude’s most capable model: Opus 4.6 with Extended Thinking.

And it proceeded to fail not once, but four separate times in the same message. I’ve never seen anything like it before. See for yourself:

Here’s where AI tried to fix its approach:

  1. “Wait — that won’t work…”

  2. “Actually — scratch that…”

  3. “But that’s fragile because…”

  4. And the “most reliable approach” also failed when I tried it.

I’ve never seen any AI tool try to correct itself mid-message and fail so many times. I’m getting less and less impressed with newer model versions, but perhaps I’ve become numb to how incredible it is that we have AI at all.

Have you ever run into an issue like this? Reply back and I’d love to hear about it.

CURIOSITY CORNER
The Initiation Well in Sintra, Portugal

As I wrote last week, I was fortunate enough to go to Portugal for a week earlier in March.

One of the most interesting sights I saw was the Initiation Well. At the palace Quinta da Regaleira, there's a spiral staircase that descends 90 feet into the earth for no practical reason whatsoever. The well was never a water source.

Instead, it was built for secret ceremonial purposes by an eccentric millionaire who filled his entire estate with Freemason symbols, Templar crosses, and hidden tunnels.

The well was meant to offer a spiritual journey: initiates would enter blindfolded, descend nine flights of stairs, then feel their way through a pitch-black underground labyrinth until they found the light at Waterfall Lake.

It's one of the stranger things you can do on a Friday afternoon. Alas, it’s overrun by influencers and their Instagram boyfriends.

JOB BOARD
Directors Making Dough 🤑

Here are the 3 most interesting remote job openings I’ve seen this week, all paying $150k or more:

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That’s it for this week.

-Rahul from The DesAI Digest

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