The Handout

Yesterday you listened. Today you look.

Here’s the thing about Week 1 that makes it different from every AI course you’ve been offered: it doesn’t add a single technique. It takes one thing away.

A filter. One that somebody placed over your lens a long time ago without asking you.

And I can’t take it off for you. That’s the whole problem with ho…

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The Handout

Yesterday you listened. Today you look.

Here’s the thing about Week 1 that makes it different from every AI course you’ve been offered: it doesn’t add a single technique. It takes one thing away.

A filter. One that somebody placed over your lens a long time ago without asking you.

And I can’t take it off for you. That’s the whole problem with ho…

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