From overwhelmed to fluent
When AI started appearing everywhere, most people I knew had the same reaction: a mix of curiosity, low-grade anxiety, and the quiet sense that they were already behind. I felt all of it.
What changed was a decision to stop observing from the sidelines and start running experiments — not as a technologist, but as a writer trying to understand what this shift actually means for how people work and live.
That became My AI Experiment.
The story so far
Nela is a writer and creative professional based in Silicon Valley, where she works in the tech industry. For over a decade, she has written about the things that shape how we work and live: growth mindset, deep focus, goal-setting, habit-building, motivation, and the discipline it takes to do your best work.
Her writing has been published in TIME, Forbes, Inc., Business Insider, Huffington Post, Slate, and Apple News, and translated into more than a dozen languages, including French, Swedish, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Chinese, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Finnish. She also writes on Medium and has authored a series of ebooks on self-development, productivity, and the building blocks of a meaningful working life.
On the Q&A platform Quora, where she has earned Top Writer status, her 2,122 answers have reached over 97 million views in ten years of writing, across a community of more than 400 million monthly users.
When AI entered her world, she approached it the way she approaches everything: not as a technologist, but as a writer and thinker figuring out what actually works. That curiosity became My AI Experiment — a weekly newsletter where she distills what she’s learning and shares it with people who are figuring it out too. A podcast is on the way.
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This site is where the experiment lives.
I hope something here is useful to you.