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The biggest challenge people face with AI? Not the technology itself: it's fear and paralysis at the exact moment people need to act. In a moment when technology dominates the headlines, conversations on LinkedIn keep coming back to one very human question: what does AI mean for my job and my career?

That's why Ryan Roslansky and Aneesh Raman wrote Open to Work: How to Get Ahead in the Age of AI to help people navigate this moment of profound change. It's a guide for anyone trying to make sense of work right now. For every person asking what comes next for their job, their career, their company, or their community. It explains what AI changes, what it doesn't, and how each of us can find our edge.

The Most Dangerous Career Strategy Right Now Is Standing Still

For decades, many of us were taught a fairly linear career formula: work hard, stay loyal, and get promoted. That advice wasn't wrong. It just isn't complete anymore. AI isn't eliminating the need for human contribution. But it is compressing the timeline of relevance. Skills evolve faster. Roles change faster. The distance between being highly valuable and being outdated can close quickly. The people who thrive in this environment aren't necessarily the most technical. They're the most adaptive. Ryan goes into more detail about what he calls building career optionality in his newsletter.

The Job Is Not the Job

AI is already very good at certain kinds of horizontal tasks. Research. Summaries. Drafting. Pattern recognition in data. Those capabilities are improving quickly, and for many people they touch a real part of the day-to-day. But they don't define the whole job.

A more useful way to think about this is to sort what you do into three categories: tasks that AI can do alone, tasks that you'll do with AI, or tasks that remain uniquely human. Aneesh explains this process in more detail inthis video.

Are You Getting Better at the Wrong Thing?

Many of us were taught to think about our careers as ladders. You pick a lane. You work hard. You move up. One rung at a time. That model made sense in stable systems. But what happens when the structure itself starts shifting? Ryan encourages us to stop thinking of a career as a ladder and start thinking of it as a climbing wall in this edition of his Open to Work newsletter.

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How to Pre-Order Open to Work

Open to Work: How to Get Ahead in the Age of AI will be released simultaneously in physical, eBook and audio formats in the English language worldwide by HarperCollins on March 31, 2026. Pre-orders are available now at linkedin.com/opentowork with international translations to follow.