The amount of AI news, commentary, and opinion available is enormous and most of it is not relevant to how you use AI in your practice. The habit you need is a filter, not a firehose.
Here is what I recommend, and it is deliberately minimal.
Follow the official blogs or update channels for the platform you use. If you are on Claude, follow Anthropic’s blog. If you are on ChatGPT, follow OpenAI’s blog. These are the primary sources for feature releases, model updates, and capability changes that directly affect your workflow. When your platform releases something new, you want to know about it from the source, not from a commentary layer that may overstate or misinterpret what has changed.
Choose one general AI newsletter that provides a curated weekly summary. Not a daily news feed. Not a technical journal. A weekly summary that covers the developments most relevant to people who use AI professionally. There are several good options and they change over time, so rather than naming one that may not be the best choice by the time you watch this, I would suggest asking your AI platform itself: “What are the most respected weekly AI newsletters for non-technical professionals?” It will give you current options. Subscribe to one. Read it once a week. That is enough.
Follow two or three voices in the travel industry who are using AI thoughtfully and sharing what they learn. These might be advisors, agency owners, travel technology commentators, or industry bodies like ASATA that are engaging with AI from a travel perspective. The value of industry-specific voices is that they filter general AI developments through the lens of your actual work, which saves you the effort of doing that translation yourself.
That is the full staying-informed system: your platform’s official channel, one weekly newsletter, and two or three industry voices. Thirty minutes per week at most. Everything else is optional and should only be pursued when a specific question or opportunity makes it relevant.
