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Week 1 of 5 · Class 2 of 10 · Thu 5/21

Share, yes-and, combine

A fireside with Kathy Wu Brady on leading in the age of AI, then your first team work session: share your partner's to-do app, yes-and it, and combine the two builds into one project to demo Tuesday.

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Pre-read · 10 min

Read all three before the fireside so the conversation lands.

  1. AI doesn't test leadership, it tests something else
  2. What mattering actually means
  3. 7 ways to thrive in the age of AI

All three come from Kathy's Substack. Subscribe to Lead without Limits →

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Today's schedule

4:00–4:30Fireside Q&A: Kathy Wu Brady, leading in the age of AI
4:30–5:30Week 1 team work · share, yes-and, combine

Week 1 team work: share + combine

On Tuesday you vibecoded a to-do list for your partner. Today you swap, yes-and each other's work, and combine the two builds into one project to demo next Tuesday 5/26.

Thu 5/21 · 1 hour

1st 30 min · share + contribute

  1. Share your to-do app with your partner. What was their reaction?
  2. Each of you contributes to the other's project in code, then redeploys.How do you build on someone else's work without overwriting it?

2nd 30 min · discuss + combine

  1. Discuss pros / cons of each. What components bring each person joy? What are the must-haves?
  2. Combine the two to-do lists into one project, ready to demo Tuesday 5/26.

Two tracks today

CATCH-UP TRACK: Jeff Lash, Ramin Talaie. They missed the last 30 min of Class 1, so today they run the Class 1 Tuesday exercise together: interview each other on how they track to-dos, then vibecode a to-do list for each other.
EVERYONE ELSE: in your Week 1 teams, do the Thursday step: share the app, yes-and the partner's work, combine into one project to demo Tuesday.

Ending criteria: 1 project per team

FUN: how much fun can you have building for someone else?
CREATIVITY: how creatively can you combine the two projects?
COLLABORATION: how much can you yes-and and support the other person's ideas?

Week 1 teams · Thursday

1Daniela Perilla + Arpit Gupta
2Nikoo Beyzaei + Aviral Gupta
3Sabrina Abhyankar + Chris Thorne
4John Dufresne + Dorincy Shen
5Patricia Juarez + Daliso Zuze
6Jeff Lash + Ramin Talaie
7Kevin Ko + Michael Krafft
8Elizabeth Ferrao + Jocelyn Baun

Fireside: Kathy Wu Brady · Lead without Limits

Kathy Wu Brady

2x CEO, 2x COO, and executive coach who's launched 4 businesses to $15–50MM ARR across tech, social impact, media, e-commerce, and consulting. She writes Lead without Limits, translating 20+ years of high-growth leadership into actionable mini-guides. Today's fireside is a real conversation about leading in the age of AI, including the part nobody names out loud about layoffs, automation, and managing your own emotional whiplash while still showing up for your team.

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