Nate B Jones

I'm building a compass for the age of AI

I built a video guide to AI & Careers.

It's 30 minutes. You have 30 minutes to think about how AI is going to shape your career don't you?It's just one episode of your favorite show (mine is What We Do in the Shadows btw).My goal with this video is to help you understand macro AI trends and start to think strategically about how AI may affect your career.If you watch this video and want to go deeper on AI, you can grab a 1:1 with me to learn more.

I believe we build better together.

I created AI Robot Club so we can learn to build with AI, together. I believe we learn AI best by actually playing with it, so I created AI Robot Club so we can all learn to build AI stuff together.This is the place to go if you're curious about building with AI, need some help, and want some regular support in a group context as you sharpen your skills.We'll meet for an hour twice a month after work (Mondays at 5/8ET), and you'll be part of a lively slack community as well!There's no commitment, so if you're just curious give it a shot for a month and see what you build! I think you'll be surprised.

Power up your AI skills with an intensive course.

I'm working with Maven to offer an AI Career Accelerator course. It's designed to give you the chance to really understand AI, dig into macro trends that are shaping all our careers, and emerge with new skills and new conviction around how to shape your future in the age of AI.Try it—the people love it!(You can also probably get it reimbursed by your company lol)

Grab time with me.

Sometimes you just need a check-in. Grab time with me to ask that nagging question, get my perspective on your career, or some quick tips for the road.Whatever it is, it's your time. We can run your pitch deck, practice an interview, talk about promotions.You name it, I've heard it before, and I'm here to help.

Grab ongoing time with me and accelerate.

Sometimes, you need to work alongside someone to get where you want to go. I offer ongoing mentorship and consulting with the goal of accelerating the people I work with, so you get your goals done faster.I find the deepest transformation in career and business often happens through these ongoing conversations, and my advisees have been promoted, raised rounds, switched jobs, and launched and scaled products.If you'd like to learn more, feel free to reach out with what you're looking for to [email protected] and we'll go from there. Talk soon!

Have something else in mind? Yes, I occasionally do speaking engagements. Yes, you can send me a note about sponsoring a TikTok (I'm selective).Feel free to shoot an email here: [email protected]

From Indonesia to Seattle

I've lived in 30 centuries at once. That's the title of an old Indonesian ad campaign, and it accurately summarizes my 20 years living in Southeast Asia—everywhere from a hut with no electricity to the towers of a megacity.Coups and failing airplane engines have given me an unflappable calm. So has founding, which is its own special class of insanity.I'm still in tech because I think AI is the most interesting technology most of us are going to see in our lifetimes. It's up to us to make it useful, and that's what excites me.Yes, I do many things at once here. If you wonder how I do it, the answer is the usual one: ruthless time management and efficiency. Time is the one thing I can't get back and I treat it that way.When I'm not working, you'll find me on hikes in the PNW, on a plane somewhere new, building Legos, reading books, or taking my kids on unforgettable adventures. We're going to see Taylor Swift next!

Get all my prompts!

I believe much of the alpha in AI is in extraordinary prompts. I treat them like code, and I change them carefully.I've shared a number of them on TikTok, but I've realized there's a need for a regularly updated library of prompts that anyone can access. Prompts that run the gamut from product to engineering to professional development to social posts for marketers. Even prompts for email.I've built them, and you can grab more than 50 pages of them here.

Check out what I'm working on myself.

This is a collection of some of my recent projects. Some are paid, some are not.The common thread is looking to build something useful that slots into existing workflows.Check these out and let me know what you think!

Grow and learn with faciliated peer groups

Sometimes the most effective learning is done in groups.I've noticed a need for more peer support around career growth, and I don't think there's been a great way to do it historically.So I'm building one! Check out the learning groups below and sign up for what works for you!

## 🌏 Remote Summer Internships —## Join Me in Building & Telling the Story of the AI-Powered FutureHi, I’m Nate. If you already follow my Substack or TikTok you know I live and breathe AI. I’m launching several interesting things this summer, and I need two relentlessly proactive interns to help me ship faster than I can type.I don’t want resumes.I want proof.Send me the best thing you’ve built (or written) in the past 30 days, plus a one-paragraph pitch for what you’d create for me in your first week.---### 1️⃣ Cracked-Vibe Coding Intern(20 hrs / week, July → September | $1.8-2.4 k USD / month + bonuses)You’ll own- Personal site & digital garden – Spin up and maintain a fast, on-brand site that surfaces my flagship Substack essays, speaking bio, and live project links.
- Agentic automations – Use n8n (or better) to stitch together tools that free me from grunt work: newsletter clipping, Discord alerts, dynamic landing pages, etc.
- Rapid AI tinkering – Poke every new release (think Claude Code layered with Cluely, or a workflow from figma to o3 to vercel), then pitch me why it’s a level-up.
- Keep the kitchen clean - Be the person who helps make stuff a bit more organized as you go
- The vibe - You are proactive, an excellent communicator, clear and detailed in your work, you’re excited by AI, you move fast and ask questions later, you’re persuadably opinionated, but you can disagree and commit (I can too)
- The goal - Automate cool stuff for me (what I get), build an amazing resume bullet point and get someone who can recommend you for stuff (what you get)Day-one brief1. Ship a working site skeleton with decent design that organizes my top Substack posts and calls out my other services cleanly
2. Draft two automation ideas that would save me ≥2 h/week (describe the stack, not just the headline)---### 2️⃣ AI-Powered Content Intern(20 hrs / week, June → August | $1.1-1.5 k USD / month + bonuses)You’ll own- Story mining & outline drafting – Surface the single most important AI story each week and sketch a 300-word angle I haven’t seen.
- Multimodal production – Turn raw video into crisp clips, carousel posts, or narrative threads. Edit in whatever gets us there fastest.
- Distribution experiments – A/B titles, thumbnails, hooks. Report back with the data.
- Keep the kitchen clean - Be the person who helps make stuff a bit more organized as you go
- The vibe - You are proactive, an excellent communicator, clear and detailed in your work, you’re excited by AI, you move fast and ask questions later, you’re persuadably opinionated, but you can disagree and commit (I can too)
- The goal - Help me tell cool stories more sustainably (what I get), build an amazing resume bullet point and get someone who can recommend you for stuff (what you get)Day-one brief1. Link me to a recent article, video, or thread you made that proves you can communicate clearly.
2. In 200 words, answer: “What was the pivotal AI story in June 2025—and why did the market underrate it?”
3. Suggest one content asset you’d ship for me in week 1 (format, length, tool chain).---### How I work & what you get| Expectation | What it looks like |
| --- | --- |
| Async first | Daily Slack check-ins, weekly Loom demo—no standing meetings. |
| Proactivity over perfection | Surprising me with a working POC beats asking for permission. |
| Tool budget | Up to $200/month each AI tooling that gets you moving faster |
| Outcome bonuses | 10-20 % of base per milestone (site launch, video ≥5 k views, automation saving 10 h/mo). |
| Public credit | Your name on the site footer or video titles—your portfolio grows with mine. |---### How to apply (deadline June 30, 2025)1. Drop a single link (GitHub repo, Notion doc, Google Drive folder, Substack post—your call) showing off the work you’re proudest of.
2. Add a short Loom (≤2 min) walking me through the one thing in that link you think I’ll care about most.
3. Paste your day-one brief (see above) into the email body or DM.
1. I get that actually building the stuff for me is work
2. So TLDR itThat’s it—no PDFs, no GPA.Email: chef [at] natebjones.comSubject: Summer Intern — Vibe Coder or Summer Intern — AI ContentI’ll review submissions as they come in and run a rapid-fire async interview with the most compelling two to three candidates for each slot. Final offers go out by July 8.Looking forward to seeing what you can build.— Nate