Ageless Peak Performance Is Here
The New ProductMind Book From Ted Yang
After being a leader at places like Bridgewater and Citadel, launching more than a dozen companies and non-profits, serving on boards, and raising a family with special needs children, I found my brain starting to slow down as I neared 50.
I became obsessed with one question:
Why do our best years have to be so short?
I discovered that generative AI provided an answer to this question and the result is Ageless Peak Performance: The Playbook for AI-Powered Excellence.
Your best years can last longer than you think.
For decades, we’ve accepted the traditional performance curve: build expertise in your twenties and thirties, hit your stride for 10 to 15 years, then slowly watch your edge erode as speed fades, cognitive load rises, and the world keeps moving faster.
Thanks to AI this doesn’t have to happen anymore.
Used well, AI can compensate for what tends to decline with age: processing speed, recall, and working memory, while amplifying what experience makes stronger: judgment, pattern recognition, strategic thinking, and perspective.
That is the idea behind Ageless Peak Performance.
This is not a book about using chatbots to write emails faster.
It is about redesigning how you think, learn, decide, and execute, alone and with your team, so AI becomes cognitive leverage rather than just another productivity tool.
Inside the book, I cover:
How AI can extend peak performance from a short window into a decades-long plateau
Why experienced professionals may be better positioned for the AI age than they realize
How younger professionals can compress years of learning into months
How to build your own AI team of advisors, critics, researchers, coaches, and operators
How teams can move from individual peak to collective peak
Why human judgment has to stay at the center
To celebrate the launch, the ebook is available for a limited-time launch price of $9.99.
I’m also sharing two free resources for readers of the ProductMind Substack:
1. The Devil’s Advocate AI Workflow
This is one of the simplest and most useful AI workflows from the book. It helps you use AI to challenge your assumptions, expose blind spots, and strengthen your decisions before the real world gets a vote. Get it here
2. A free book excerpt featuring the first Principle for using AI to perform at your peak. You can read an excerpt here
When you are ready for more Ageless Peak Performance, you can:
Buy the Hardcover Buy the eBook Buy on Amazon
Thank you to everyone who has helped shape this project: my ProductMind partners, readers, reviewers, friends, family - the many people who challenged me to make this book the best it can be.
The AI age does not have to make us less human. Used wisely, it can help us do our best work for longer.
Ted