Can You Future-Proof Your Life in the Age of AI? (Book Review)
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<p><main id="readArticle" class="Page-main" data-module="" data-padding="none" morss_own_score="5.492957746478873" morss_score="14.301912970359469"></main></p><p><a href="https://www.govtech.com/blogs/lohrmann-on-cybersecurity">Lohrmann on Cybersecurity</a></p><div class="code-block code-block-13" style="margin: 8px 0; clear: both;"> <style> .ai-rotate {position: relative;} .ai-rotate-hidden {visibility: hidden;} .ai-rotate-hidden-2 {position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;} .ai-list-data, .ai-ip-data, .ai-filter-check, .ai-fallback, .ai-list-block, .ai-list-block-ip, .ai-list-block-filter {visibility: hidden; position: absolute; width: 50%; height: 1px; top: -1000px; z-index: -9999; margin: 0px!important;} .ai-list-data, .ai-ip-data, .ai-filter-check, .ai-fallback {min-width: 1px;} </style> <div class="ai-rotate ai-unprocessed ai-timed-rotation ai-13-1" data-info="WyIxMy0xIiwxXQ==" style="position: relative;"> <div class="ai-rotate-option" style="visibility: hidden;" data-index="1" data-name="U2hvcnQ=" data-time="MTA="> <div class="custom-ad"> <div style="margin: auto; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.techstrongevents.com/cruisecon-virtual-west-2025/home?ref=in-article-ad-2&utm_source=sb&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=in-article-ad-2" target="_blank"><img src="https://securityboulevard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Banner-770x330-social-1.png" alt="Cruise Con 2025"></a></div> <div class="clear-custom-ad"></div> </div></div> </div> </div><h1>Can You Future-Proof Your Life in the Age of AI? (Book Review)</h1><h2>In his book <i>Comfort Override: Future-Proof Your Life as AI Flips Your World, </i>Ranan Lachman explores how we can prepare and adapt for unprecedented change and offers practical, hands-on help.</h2><div>November 16, 2025 • </div><p><a href="https://www.govtech.com/authors/dan-lohrmann.html"><span>Dan Lohrmann</span></a></p><figure> <p><img decoding="async" src="https://erepublic.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/9c4583e/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1902x992+9+0/resize/840x438!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ferepublic-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2F4e%2Fd4%2Fc96e921e20826017d0c084d589b5%2Fartificial-intelligence-4550606-1920.jpg"></p> </figure><div class="Page-articleBody RichTextBody" morss_own_score="5.838341968911917" morss_score="125.33834196891192"> <p> When <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rananlachman/">Ranan Lachman</a> reached out to tell me about his new book on future-proofing your world as AI accelerates change all around us, I was excited and agreed to do a book review. However, I had no true idea about the approach the author was taking, and I was surprised (and challenged) by the action-oriented chapters — and transformations offered.</p></div><div>There were a few items that I disagreed with. Nevertheless, I am glad I read this book and urge you to do the same.</div><div>Here’s how Amazon summarizes the book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Comfort-Override-Future-Proof-Flips-World-ebook/dp/B0FRWV2BX2"><i>Comfort Override: Future-Proof Your Life as AI Flips Your World</i></a>: </div><div>“The tsunami of change is already here. Artificial Intelligence isn’t coming for your job—it’s already transforming it. By 2030, 375 million workers globally will need to switch entire occupational categories due to AI. The career you’re building today may not exist in five years. Climate change isn’t a distant threat—it’s reshaping economies, forcing mass migrations, and making entire regions economically unviable. The stable world order you’ve built your life around is dissolving into competing power blocks, parallel economies, and accelerating uncertainty. <figure> <p><img decoding="async" src="https://erepublic.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/2907c7a/2147483647/strip/true/crop/183x275+0+0/resize/840x1262!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ferepublic-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2F50%2Fee%2F0d6e8a2c4da0be6929adc8cc5616%2Fcomfort-override.jpg"></p> </figure> <p>“While the world transforms at exponential speed, you’re still operating with the same routines, the same thinking patterns, the same strategies that worked in a world that no longer exists.</p> </div><div>“In COMFORT OVERRIDE, transformation expert Ranan Lachman reveals why your comfortable routines have become death traps in disguise. Those predictable patterns that make you feel safe? They’re making you more vulnerable to disruption. The expertise you’ve spent years building? It could become worthless overnight. The financial strategies your advisor recommends? They’re optimized for an economy that’s already history. <p>“But this isn’t a book about fear — it’s about power. The power to transform yourself faster than the world transforms around you.”</p> <h3>WHAT WAS I EXPECTING?</h3> </div><div>I thought this would be another book all about various types of AI and how everything is changing from a technology perspective. But that’s not really the case. Here’s more from the Amazon description:</div><div>“Drawing from neuroscience, behavioral psychology and real-world case studies — from Netflix’s self-disruption to Kodak’s cautionary collapse — this book exposes how our brains trap us in ‘routine addiction’ and provides a proven framework for breaking free. Through the revolutionary ADAPT system, you’ll discover how to: <ul> <li>Transform rigid routines into flexible strategies that strengthen rather than shatter when life disrupts your plans</li> <li>Build ‘adaptation muscle’ through systematic micro-experiments that rewire your brain for resilience</li> <li>Create anti-fragile career systems that profit from uncertainty instead of being crushed by it</li> <li>Develop AI collaboration capabilities that make you irreplaceable rather than obsolete</li> <li>Design relationships, wellness practices, and financial strategies that evolve with change rather than breaking under pressure”</li> </ul> <h3>CHALLENGING QUESTIONS</h3> </div><div>This book, if taken seriously, will shake up the way you live your life. From exercise to eating to writing to tasks at home and work, the author describes how routines help us and can become deadly.</div><div>There are hundreds of practical examples and small challenges given throughout the book. After describing global trends like the AI acceleration curve, various disruptions and the trust collapse, Lachman dives into topics like “the seduction of routine and how you can break free.”</div><div>Important topics regarding how our brains get wired are described in detail. Chapters have headings like “The Chemical Addiction to Comfort,” “The Three Stages of Routine Dependency,” “The Hidden Costs of Comfort” and “Breaking Free: Assessment and Action.”</div><div>Then comes the unique part: Readers are challenged to answer questions to obtain our personal “routine rigidity assessment scorecard.” The assessment covers daily behavioral, cognitive, emotional, social and professional patterns.</div><div>After we have our score, and the interpretation, we learn about the microvariation method to enable us to break free and develop strategies for creating flexibility.</div><div>For example, in the microvariation method we could:</div><div>“Week 1</div><div>– Take a different route to work (even just the last few blocks).</div><div>– Sit in a different chair for morning coffee.</div><div>– Brush your teeth with your non-dominant hand.</div><div>“Week 2-4</div><div>– Change the order of your morning routine.</div><div>– Work from a different location one day.</div><div>– Try a new podcast or playlist.</div><div>“These seem trivial, and that’s the point. You’re not trying to transform your life, you’re building new neural pathways for flexibility.” <h3>WHERE’S AI?</h3> </div><div>The first half of the book describes how we are wired and how we can change and adapt, but then in Chapter 11, Lachlan dives into “Career and AI Collaboration,” covering topics like “the death of career predictability” and “the augmented professional paradigm.” He helps readers develop strategic skills stacking for AI collaboration.</div><div>The author then goes on to tackle topics ranging from investing to leadership in this new AI era.</div><div>In Part 4, after covering so many building blocks, he gets to “future-proofing your life.” He takes readers on a 90-Day Sprint to transform your life and career. The author calls this “your simple, durable plan to turn insights into capability.” <h3>FINAL THOUGHT</h3> </div><div>This book packs in so much information that it is a very difficult book to review in under 1,000 words. Still, I really am impressed and highly recommend you read it, especially if you are feeling overwhelmed by your career changes with AI over the next decade.</div><div>I will close with this great quote from the author’s conclusion:</div><div>“My own comfort override journey brought me here [to his new country home], from traditional management consulting through investment banking to leading a remote-first company across 12 countries. During this time, every override, a moment I chose growth over comfort led to possibilities I could not have envisioned from within my previous comfort zones.”</div><p><a href="https://www.govtech.com/tag/artificial-intelligence">Artificial Intelligence </a></p><p><a href="https://www.govtech.com/authors/dan-lohrmann.html"></a></p><p><img decoding="async" src="https://erepublic.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/7be6234/2147483647/strip/true/crop/343x343+77+0/resize/100x100!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ferepublic-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Faa%2Fbe%2F66bbbc539526800857dd96f3c9d5%2Flohrman.jpg"></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.govtech.com/authors/dan-lohrmann.html">Dan Lohrmann</a></p><div> Daniel J. 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