The Future Proof Course
An interactive course that turns the book into real skills — 20 modules with audio, quizzes, and practical Learning Actions, plus a certificate to prove it. Learn at your own pace and put AI to work in your day job.
One-time purchase · lifetime access · certificate included
Don't Just Read It — Master It
The course takes everything in the book and turns it into an interactive learning experience designed to make the ideas stick.
Guided Reader
All 20 modules in a clean, distraction-free reader you work through at your own pace, with your progress saved as you go.
Audio Narration
Studio-quality narration of every module, so you can learn on your commute or between meetings.
Knowledge-Check Quizzes
A short quiz after each module locks in what you've learned and shows you what to revisit.
Practical Learning Actions
Every module ends with concrete actions to apply the ideas to your actual job — not just theory.
Completion Certificate
Earn a shareable certificate when you finish, to evidence your AI upskilling to managers and peers.
Lifetime Access
One purchase, lifetime access from any device — including updates as AI and the course evolve.
What you'll learn
- Understand how modern AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) work, including capabilities, limitations, and real-world use cases
- Understand AI safety, ethics, and responsible use in a professional environment
- Develop a practical plan to integrate AI into your daily work and long-term skillset
- Recognise the impact of AI on your role, industry, and future career opportunities
20 Modules to Future Proof Your Career
Each module is designed to stand alone — read cover to cover or jump to what matters most to you right now.
Don't Panic
What AI actually is, why the hype and the doom are both wrong, and why understanding it as a sophisticated tool (not a threat) is the right starting point.
AI Won't Take Your Job. Someone Using AI Might.
The real competitive dynamic: AI compresses execution time, shifting value toward judgment and relationships. The "capable graduate" mental model.
Becoming an AI Power User
Moving from occasional dabbler to daily practitioner. Expanding your sense of what AI can help with, and treating it as a thinking partner rather than a vending machine.
The Art of the Prompt
The four-component prompt framework (role, context, task, format), chain prompting for complex tasks, and using AI to critique its own output.
Your AI Toolkit
The categories of tools worth knowing: general-purpose assistants, embedded workplace tools, and specialised apps. How to build a connected personal AI system incrementally.
When to Trust AI and When to Fire It
Hallucination explained, a clear breakdown of where AI is reliable versus where you must verify, and how to evaluate output for strategic fit, not just quality.
The Human Edge
The five things AI genuinely cannot replicate: relationships, accountability, embodied experience, original vision, and organisational political intelligence.
Your AI-Augmented Workday
A practical daily routine covering planning, email batching, deep work, meeting prep and debrief, and end-of-day review, all with AI integrated naturally.
AI and Your Career
The skills appreciating in value right now, how to make your AI fluency visible, and why recovering time from execution should be reinvested in strategic and visible work.
Using AI Responsibly
Data privacy and confidentiality risks, disclosure norms, bias in AI output, and why responsible use builds reputation rather than threatening it.
Navigating AI at Work
The patchy reality of organisational AI adoption, how to lead change without alienating sceptics, and the political pitfalls of overclaiming AI's contribution.
Like a Boss
A manager's playbook: leading from demonstrated fluency, creating psychological safety for experimentation, rethinking how you evaluate work, and having honest conversations about change.
Starting Strong
AI for early career professionals: the equaliser effect that compresses the junior-senior gap, building real foundations alongside AI, claiming AI fluency as a professional competency, and using recovered time to develop judgment and reputation.
How to Keep Learning
Building a personal learning system that runs in the background: which sources to trust, learning by doing over reading, and a realistic monthly rhythm that compounds without burning out.
Reading the Warning Signs
How to monitor whether your role faces structural threat: job posting signals, salary trends, and three honest self-assessment questions about your current exposure.
Building a Personal Brand
Why external reputation is now career insurance, the three elements of a strong professional brand, a realistic content cadence, and why generosity outperforms self-promotion.
Income Diversification
The case for building income beyond your salary: consulting and freelancing, productising your knowledge, advisory roles, and how to start small without burning out.
The Psychological Dimension
The identity challenge underneath the practical one, why anxiety is information not reality, how to rebuild confidence through competence, and managing the comparison trap.
The T-Shaped Question
Why narrow specialists face specific AI risk, which breadth to build deliberately, and how to identify and own the high-value intersection between your domain expertise and AI capability.
What's Coming Next
Agentic AI, multimodal tools, shrinking org structures, the emerging regulatory landscape, and the consistent through-line: professionals who direct AI will outperform those directed by it.
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From the Book
“The professionals building AI learning habits now will have two or three years of compounding experience by the time things 'settle down'.”
Module 14: How to Keep Learning
What Readers Are Saying
“This book completely changed how I think about AI in my daily work. The chapter on the human edge alone is worth the price.”
“Finally, a book about AI that doesn't require a PhD to understand. Practical, actionable, and genuinely useful.”
“I bought copies for my entire leadership team. The chapter on navigating AI at work saved us months of trial and error.”
About the Author
Scott is a product engineer and co-founder based in Melbourne, Australia, who has been building web software and SaaS products since 2002. As co-founder of Floats.ai, he builds AI-powered tools for recruiters, and through Sirius.dev he helps candidates showcase their skills and find their next role. His career spans enterprise solutions for government and major organisations, CTO leadership, and founding multiple tech companies.
With over two decades in the industry — from Java engineering at the Bureau of Meteorology to leading development teams delivering solutions for clients like the Australian Government Fair Work Commission and UNSW — Scott writes from the front lines of technology adoption. This book distils that hands-on experience into a practical guide for anyone navigating the AI revolution.
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