About Being Future Present

Hi, I'm Jeff Long.

I spent 20 years in public education teaching kindergartners to sing, 4th grade immigrants how to speak English, and high school students how to write essays.

Then I left. Both the classroom and America. I was in Albania in December 2022, when ChatGPT launched. I shared it with a friend, and haven't stopped working with it since.

In 2025, I built AI personas, ETL workflows, data analytics dashboards, and a 2.3 million entry political campaign contribution database scraped from the Iowa State Auditor's office, all with the help of Anthropic Claude and Google Gemini.

Today, I teach adults how to navigate the algorithmic age and build AI-powered systems that empower human thriving.

On Being Future Present, I publish articles to help you discover clarity about what it means to be human in our complex algorithmic age, including:

• Learning strategies that blend ancient wisdom with modern science

• Practical tools and systems for meaningful growth

• Task management tips to get your projects across the finish line, without feeling like a corporate stooge.

• Human-centered AI use

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