Live pages: index with review dates
This section contains pages that become outdated faster than the book and therefore carry review dates. Section rule: check the date and review window. Each page uses a 30, 90, or 180 day window. If that window has passed, treat the details as unconfirmed until the next review. Index version: 2026-08-18.
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How freshness works
- 30 days: services, access, prices, fraud protection, and fast-moving technical protocols.
- 90 days: markets, cases, regulation, and observable technology shifts.
- 180 days: relatively stable collections and archive pages.
Each page stores its review date, review window, and regions in machine-readable fields. The content check now reports a page against its own window instead of using one six-month rule for everything.
Tools and access
| Page | What it covers | Verified |
|---|---|---|
| Tools map: what to open and what to pay for | leading assistants, free models, pricing, and data cautions | 2026-08 |
| The tool map by system layer | which layer a tool sits in: thinking, knowledge, or action | 2026-06 |
| NotebookLM | a working layer over your sources | 2026-08 |
| Recommended resources | channels, courses, newsletters | 2026-06 |
| What to follow next | a short list of people, labs, and reports | 2026-07 |
Reading from Russia? The leading assistants are not directly available there. The Russian Practicum keeps a separate route: Alice, Prompthub, Qwen and DeepSeek.
Agents
| Page | What it covers | Verified |
|---|---|---|
| Simple agents | where to start with agents for personal and work use | 2026-08 |
| Autonomous agent runtimes | runtimes and frameworks for autonomous agents | 2026-08 |
| Skill banks | ready-made skills and plugins, and how to check them | 2026-08 |
| Agent commerce protocols | how agents buy and pay | 2026-08 |
| Agentic browsers | when AI moves through websites for you | 2026-08 |
Work and career
| Page | What it covers | Verified |
|---|---|---|
| What to learn now | one skill for the quarter | 2026-06 |
| What the market pays for skills | AI ability as a multiplier for domain knowledge | 2026-06 |
| Specialist cases | where AI raises a specialist's ceiling | 2026-07 |
| Career moves by role | moving from "I produce" toward "I answer for it" | 2026-06 |
| Practices without cognitive debt | using AI without forgetting how to think | 2026-06 |
| AI and the labor market | data on demand for labor | 2026-07 |
| Changing levels · The ladder and hiring | data on entry, mid-career work, and levels | 2026-06 |
Business and markets
| Page | What it covers | Verified |
|---|---|---|
| Business cases by function | where agents produce results, and where they fail | 2026-07 |
| The autonomy boundary | what AI can do and what stays human | 2026-06 |
| The "zero-human company" | the trend and an honest frame | 2026-06 |
| Who owns the rails? | AI infrastructure and backup routes | 2026-07 |
| AGI signals without the fog | five observable signals instead of speculation | 2026-07 |
Family
| Page | What it covers | Verified |
|---|---|---|
| AI skills for children | tools that leave useful effort to the child | 2026-07 |
The Economics of Trust, Book 3
| Page | What it covers | Verified |
|---|---|---|
| Trust and law | AI labeling, file provenance, and responsibility for an agent | 2026-07 |
| How many machines are on the web? | bot and agent traffic, and how to read the figures honestly | 2026-07 |
Protecting yourself does not depend on any one legal system. Two worksheets work in any country: personal trust perimeter, for proving your own work and the first 24 hours of a review attack, and family trust protocol, for a verification phrase and the conversation to have with older relatives.
Banking in Russia? Five protections there are free and switched on by you, but they are written into Russian law and do not transfer: protections you can turn on today.
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