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I lectured and wrote a book, but I was still ‘someone who explains AI’

A story that began with a single report led, the following year, to the lectern and a book. This is a record of the time I spent as ‘someone who explains AI,’ and of the one conviction I found at the end of it.

By Andrew2026.075 min read

Once I’d finished that one report with AI, I could see ten years of hands-on planning work compressed into a single piece.

Then my thinking started to tilt in one direction. If I spread this widely, I thought, people still working the old way could work more efficiently, get their own time back, and get their hands on more creative, more sophisticated results. Right around then, an acquaintance came to me with an offer. EBS, Korea’s public educational broadcaster, was planning a series on ‘how to use AI,’ and they asked me to do the ‘Making reports with AI’ episode with them. There was no reason to hesitate.

Stage: EBS lecture · the ‘Making reports with AI’ episode · joined on an acquaintance’s recommendation
Rating: 2nd of 3 lectures · saw people’s needs with my own eyes
First shoot: Camera · makeup · a first in my life

Standing in front of a camera and sitting through makeup felt thoroughly strange. Still, the fun of something new outweighed the awkwardness, and above all, I was curious how the market would rate the result. It didn’t turn out badly. Of the three lectures, mine got the second-best reviews, and I saw people’s needs for myself, not just as a guess in my head.

There was clearly demand, even for explaining.

That experience naturally grew into a book. I didn’t do it alone. The acquaintance who had suggested the EBS lecture, another acquaintance who had long handled corporate back-office work, and I — the three of us wrote The AI Butterfly Effect. If the lecture was about trying one task with AI, the book was closer to the story of an entire organization bringing AI in.

Co-authors: The acquaintance who proposed the EBS lecture + the back-office acquaintance + me
Scope: Small and midsize businesses · one-person businesses · teams inside large companies
Format: Published as an e-book

All through the lectures and the writing, a thought grew quietly. One thing in particular came into focus: a conviction that AI would take over the work of countless people in the middle layers, and that as long as systems properly supported the person making the decisions, anyone could run their own company together with AI.

Lectern, book, conviction — a three-stage path from explaining to building (I The lectern · II The book · III The conviction) — From Explaining to Building — from the lectern to the book, and on to the conviction to build it myself.

Explaining alone never quite satisfied me.

Back then, I was ‘someone who explains AI.’ Doing planning at headquarters, I had experienced firsthand how countless executives work, how reporting lines actually run, and what criteria groups like legal, marketing, sales, finance, and investment use to make decisions. With all that experience built up, I could picture a company run on AI at a glance. Honestly, I thought I could build it better than anyone. That’s how I set out on the road to _y Tower. I decided one thing then: with one lecture and one book, the explaining ends here, and from now on I speak only through what I’ve built. In the next issue, I’ll write about what I built and what I erased, one piece at a time.

Written by Andrew · andrew.ytower@gmail.com

Planner and one-person organization. I spent ten years in planning and coordination at the headquarters of a large corporation, and now I’ve built my own legal, finance, and planning departments out of agents and skills. Zero employees, and the organization still runs.