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Augmented: The Human Edge in the AI Age

You bring the judgment. AI brings the horsepower. Augmented is a weekly newsletter by Elena Jaeger on using AI well at work, for independent experts (coaches & consultants), leaders and teams.

Keep Your Expertise in Use When Working with AI

⏱️ Read time: ~4 min I read one section of a leadership development proposal aloud and asked myself: is this how I would actually say it? I had used my AI-powered content library, built from the last seven years of my own work: thought leadership, proposals and actual deliverables. I had done the...

by Elena Jäger — Oct 24, 2026 #aixleadership #humaninthelead #humanoversight #judgment

I’m Back in Second Grade. On Purpose.

⏱️ Read time: ~2 min I am back in second grade. Well, not literally. But that is the mindset I am choosing as I go deeper into building with AI. I use AI every day. Not just to polish a paragraph, summarize a meeting, or create a quick plan. I code with it. I build applications with it. I conn...

by Elena Jäger — Oct 17, 2026 #ailearning #ailiteracy #aivibecoding

Are You in Charge of Your Attention?

⏱️ Read time: ~4 min A few days ago, I was cycling through one of Zurich’s busiest transport hubs when an e-scooter rider nearly hit me. He was moving quickly, faster than the permitted 25 km/h, with one hand on the handlebar and the other holding his phone. His eyes were on the screen, not on th...

by Elena Jäger — Oct 10, 2026 #aileadership #aislop #self-leadership

I Finally Found a Way to Create Good Slides With AI

⏱️ Read time: ~2.5 min For a long time, I had a fairly firm opinion about AI and slides: My years of PowerPoint experience still beat whatever AI could produce. The first AI-generated slide decks I experimented with were not merely imperfect. They were genuinely bad. The layouts were awkward...

by Elena Jäger — Oct 03, 2026 #aiforcoaches #aipresentations #aislides #practicalai

Give Yourself Permission to Learn Like a Child!

⏱️ Read time: ~3 min Children would never learn to walk if they were afraid of falling. They wobble. They fall. They look around, recalibrate, and try again. No child waits for a complete risk assessment before taking the next step. Yet that is often how organizations are approaching AI (the very...

by Elena Jäger — Sep 26, 2026 #aiadoption #aiforcoaches #ailearningculture

AI Safety, or Strategic Positioning?

⏱️ Read time: ~3 min The last 10 days have been intense in the AI world. A former Anthropic researcher resigns publicly, warning that frontier AI companies are racing towards dangerous systems. Anthropic calls for stronger safety measures. Sam Altman says OpenAI will not pursue an IPO in 2026, ci...

by Elena Jäger — Sep 19, 2026 #aiforcoches #airace #aisafety

AI Avatars: surprisingly useful... for the right job

⏱️ Read time: ~2 min For a while, AI avatars were everywhere. Every demo seemed to feature a polished digital presenter speaking directly to camera. Then the hype quietened down. Not because the tools disappeared, but perhaps because most of us were left wondering: where would we actually use one...

by Elena Jäger — Sep 12, 2026 #aiavatars #aiforcoaches #responsibleai

When AI became my kombucha guide

⏱️ Read time: ~2 min I love kombucha. The trouble is, the brands I like are not always available where I shop. And because I already love cooking and fermenting, I finally decided to just make my own. I watched a couple of YouTube videos, gathered the ingredients, and started my first batch. Then...

Sep 05, 2026 #aiforcoaches #ailearning #personalaiuse

Stuck? Have you asked AI?

⏱️ Read time: ~2 min I was participating in an AI-training the other week: VPS setup and management, aka learning to deploy AI-coded apps securely on my own infrastructure. For those like me with no tech background. So far so good, I managed just fine. Until, halfway through, I forgot to hit save...

by Elena Jäger — Aug 29, 2026 #aiforcoaches #askai #mindsetchange

What I Built This Summer

⏱️ Read time: ~1 min Summer is quieter for me, and I genuinely love it. It's time to socialize, spend afternoons at the lake, hit the gym, be with family. But it's also time I use differently than the rest of the year. I'm exploring. I'm upgrading. I'm building things I usually don't have bandwid...

by Elena Jäger — Aug 22, 2026 #aiforcoaches #aimarketing #vibecoding

An AI investment that paid for itself in no time

⏱️ Read time: ~3 min I just spent $100 on Claude credits to rebuild my website. Before you think I'm reckless, hear me out. I didn't hire an agency. I didn't outsource to a freelancer. I used Opus 5 to audit my existing website and all landing pages (ca. 50, many I no longer use), my entire codeb...

by Elena Jäger — Aug 15, 2026 #aiforcoaches #aileverage #claudecode #websiteswithclaude

Why you're confused about which AI model to use

⏱️ Read time: ~4 min One of the most frequent questions I get from both my customers and prospective customers is about model choice: "How do I know which model to use?" It's an understandable question. Six months ago the answer was more or less straightforward. Now there are countless seriou...

by Elena Jäger — Aug 08, 2026 #aiforcoaches #claudevschatgpt #modelchoice

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You bring the judgment. AI brings the horsepower. Augmented is a weekly newsletter by Elena Jaeger on using AI well at work, for independent experts (coaches & consultants), leaders and teams.

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