
How to Be Awesome at Your Job 1143: How to Build a Career that AI Can’t Replace with Aneesh Raman
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Apr 6, 2026 Aneesh Raman, LinkedIn’s Chief Economic Opportunity Officer and author, helps listeners rethink work in the age of AI. He explores which tasks AI can handle, what new AI-enabled roles look like, and why doubling down on uniquely human curiosity and skills is the smartest career move. Short, practical ideas for experimenting with AI in your workflow are sprinkled throughout.
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AI Forces A Return To Human Strengths
- AI will out-efficiency humans but reveal opportunities to reassert human strengths like curiosity and creativity.
- Aneesh argues work was over-optimized for efficiency for centuries, and AI frees time for millennia-old human capabilities to matter again.
Three Bucket Job Audit
- Audit your weekly tasks into three buckets: tasks AI can do, new things AI enables, and uniquely human work to expand.
- Move routine items to AI, use time for bucket two experiments, and recenter on bucket three's five C's.
Don't Outsource Your Thinking
- Avoid overusing AI as a crutch; keep your thinking muscle by engaging critically with outputs.
- Aneesh warns of "cognitive debt" when you paste answers without processing them and later can't explain your reasoning.








