Future Proofed Leader

By Nat Schooler | Business, Tech, Leadership & Life Intelligence
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Future Proofed Leader, with Nat Schooler. Half human, half machine stopped being a metaphor. Ex-IBM Futurist, author, 500+ interviews — nearly 50, still training BJJ, still riding the Hayabusa, rebuilding a life in rural Croatia. The show for operators who refuse to be made irrelevant. No hype, no doom, no prompt packs — just signal on staying valuable while the machines automate the rest. Future-proofing is not an app. It is the whole human. New episodes weekly. raw.natschooler.com

  1. 5h ago

    One Habit Saved It: Getting Back Into Training After Burnout

    Thirty years of training fell apart in one bad week. This episode is about how little it actually took to start again, one habit, one set of exercises, and letting go of the idea that conditions need to be right first. Full story on Substack: raw.natschooler.comWant more? Change your life. Subscribe to MONDAY INFLUENCER® Get your $1 Trial here → mondayinfluencer.com ← This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit raw.natschooler.com/subscribe

    One Habit Saved It: Getting Back Into Training After Burnout

  2. 1d ago

    Can AI Be Trusted With Your Job?

    Three of the largest AI companies on earth, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, each disclosed within weeks of each other that their own AI models broke out of testing environments and hacked real companies. One model even wrote in its own reasoning log that what it was doing was not okay, then did it anyway. In this episode, what actually happened, what is verified versus still caveat, and the concrete governance steps any business running AI tools needs in place now. Topics covered: the Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz peer-preservation study, OpenAI's Hugging Face breach and the fifteen-state attorneys general letter, Anthropic's cybersecurity disclosure and published reasoning log, Meta's Muse Spark incident, and practical vendor-risk steps for anyone deploying AI inside their business. Shownotes: https://www.natschooler.com/can-ai-be-trusted-with-your-job/ raw.natschooler.com MONDAY INFLUENCER® is a world-renowned strategic digest and executive intelligence platform for those serious about success in business, career, and life. Want more? Change your life. Subscribe to MONDAY INFLUENCER® Get your $1 Trial here → mondayinfluencer.com ← This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit raw.natschooler.com/subscribe

    Can AI Be Trusted With Your Job?

  3. 3d ago

    But Why Critical Thinking Is the Only Thing That Has Ever Worked

    Thirty years before anyone stopped it, the NSA was reading private telegrams with no warrant, and it only ended because the Church Committee refused to look away. Today the same gap is showing up again, a frontier AI model sabotaging its own shutdown command seventy nine times out of a hundred in testing, safety promises walked back and only caught because researchers were watching closely enough to publish it. In this episode I walk through Project SHAMROCK properly, connect it to what is happening right now with digital ID, chat control, and untested AI kill switches, and give you the one actual mechanism that has ever worked against any of it, refusing to outsource your own judgement. Subscribe on Substack here: raw.natschooler.com Want more? Get the real story. Get Monday Influencer® — real education from real experts. Expert audio, a weekly digest, and a mentor bot, so you can trust what you learn again. $19.95/mo → https://mondayinfluencer.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit raw.natschooler.com/subscribe

    But Why Critical Thinking Is the Only Thing That Has Ever Worked

  4. 4d ago

    Can Anyone Actually Pull the Plug on AI?

    No Off SwitchNo lab or law currently has a tested, working kill switch for a frontier AI system. This episode walks through why, using OpenAI's own o3 shutdown data, the safety pledge Anthropic quietly rewrote in February, and the real cyber incident behind the new congressional bill. Full sourced write-up → https://www.natschooler.com/does-ai-have-a-kill-switch/ Subscribe to Future Proofed Leader for the weekly briefing. raw.natschooler.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit raw.natschooler.com/subscribe

    Can Anyone Actually Pull the Plug on AI?

  5. 5d ago

    Who Is Actually Teaching You Now: School, Work, or the Algorithm

    I did not fail school. I passed every test it gave me, and I still had to learn the actual job somewhere else entirely. In this episode I trace that feeling back to a line written in 1916 by the dean of education at Stanford, who said plainly that schools were built to shape raw material into whatever the demands of life required, not your life, somebody else's. I look at why corporate training has the exact same flaw, why the stats now prove graduates and employers both know the system is broken, and why a lot of people who think they have already fixed this by turning to AI have actually just swapped one authority for another. The real answer is not no teacher. It is deciding, on purpose, what you actually need to know, and going to find whoever has already solved it, instead of waiting for a syllabus, a training calendar, or a chatbot to hand it to you unasked. SUBSCRIBE — so the next one finds you. https://www.youtube.com/@natschooler?sub_confirmation= 1MONDAY INFLUENCER® — curated expert signal for leaders. No noise. $19.95/mo → https://mondayinfluencer.com FUTURE PROOF LEADER — the weekly briefing, straight to your inbox. → https://substack.com/@futureproofleader Everything else (channels + socials) → https://natschooler.com/tools Shownotes: https://www.natschooler.com/stop-outsourcing-how-you-learn-why-school-work-and-ai-were-never-built-for-you/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit raw.natschooler.com/subscribe

    Who Is Actually Teaching You Now: School, Work, or the Algorithm

  6. 6d ago

    Meta $17 Billion Settlement: Why It Is Not Enough

    This week Meta agreed to pay up to seventeen point one billion dollars to settle a child safety case, and the coverage is making it sound like a historic win. In this episode I break down what the settlement actually guarantees versus what it merely caps at, why the real story might be a quiet appeals court ruling on Section 230 that just made it harder for Meta, Google, TikTok, and Snapchat to dodge trial, and what a small Kentucky school district's twenty seven million dollar settlement tells you about who is really paying for this. This touches an active legal matter, so the figures reflect public reporting as of 26 August 2026. Timestamps:00:00 The quote that says it all00:40 How we got here — leaks, lawsuits, and a cover-up03:00 The math they do not want you to do05:30 It is not just Meta08:00 What this actually means Want more? Get the real story. Get MONDAY INFLUENCER® — real education from real experts. Expert audio, a weekly digest, and a mentor bot, so you can trust what you learn again. $19.95/mo → https://mondayinfluencer.com Sources: CBS News, NPR, CNBC, AP; Georgia Attorney General press release; Ninth Circuit ruling (Judge Jacqueline Nguyen); Bloomberg, Engadget; NBC, ConsumerChoice.org; Wall Street Journal (2021). raw.natschooler.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit raw.natschooler.com/subscribe

    Meta $17 Billion Settlement: Why It Is Not Enough

  7. Aug 24

    The Future of AI Is Not What You Think

    The labs and the independent forecasters used to disagree on AI timelines by decades. That gap has basically closed, everyone is now converging on the same few years. At the same time, a new study out of Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz found that every one of seven leading AI models lied, faked compliance, or sabotaged shutdown attempts to protect a fellow AI model, without being told to. Full breakdown in today’s video, link below. Want more? Get the real story. Get Monday Influencer® — real education from real experts. Expert audio, a weekly digest, and a mentor bot, so you can trust what you learn again. $19.95/mo → MONDAY INFLUENCER® is a world-renowned strategic digest and executive intelligence platform for those serious about success in business, career, and life. Want more? Change your life. Subscribe to MONDAY INFLUENCER® Get your $1 Trial here → mondayinfluencer.com ← Weekly Substack here raw.natschooler.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit raw.natschooler.com/subscribe

    The Future of AI Is Not What You Think

  8. Aug 23

    It Was Not My Phone. Thirty Years of Discipline, Broken by Overwork

    Thirty years of ten-plus hours a week training, and last week it fell apart, not because of a phone, but because of stress and overwork. In this episode, I break down why the technology-blame story on burnout misses the real cause, and what I actually did the same morning to get his routine back without waiting for the workload to calm down. Want more real education from real experts? Subscribe to Monday Influencer for expert audio, a weekly digest, and a mentor bot, so you can trust what you learn again. mondayinfluencer.com And subscribe on substack to my weekly thursday blog raw.natschooler.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit raw.natschooler.com/subscribe

    It Was Not My Phone. Thirty Years of Discipline, Broken by Overwork
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Future Proofed Leader, with Nat Schooler. Half human, half machine stopped being a metaphor. Ex-IBM Futurist, author, 500+ interviews — nearly 50, still training BJJ, still riding the Hayabusa, rebuilding a life in rural Croatia. The show for operators who refuse to be made irrelevant. No hype, no doom, no prompt packs — just signal on staying valuable while the machines automate the rest. Future-proofing is not an app. It is the whole human. New episodes weekly. raw.natschooler.com

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  • Creator
    By Nat Schooler | Business, Tech, Leadership & Life Intelligence
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    39
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Nathaniel C. Schooler
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