The Problem With Your AI Setup Is You
Your AI workflows are probably fine. The problem is that they still wait for you to show up. Moving from automation to autonomy is less about capability and more about your willingness to let go.
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productivity
Strategies, systems, and tools for improving efficiency and output in work and life. Explores methods to accomplish more with less effort, overcome procrastination, and build sustainable work habits.
Product Managers, Stop Carrying Water for Your AI
You paste in Slack threads, Jira tickets, meeting notes. The AI writes something great. But you spent an hour gathering context so it could spend ten seconds synthesizing. You're doing the grinding. It's having the fun. That doesn't feel right.
I Had a Tense Client Call Coming Up. AI Did the Prep I Wouldn't Have.
AI will help us do the things we already do. But it will also help us do all the things we wouldn't have done that can make all the difference.
Own the Outcome
Product management has always been about ownership. Now you have the tools to actually exercise it. Everyone's on the growth team. Form hypotheses, ship, learn, iterate. The velocity that required dedicated resources is now yours.
The Hardest Thing to Do with AI is Less
AI makes creation effortless. That's the problem. From unnecessary dashboards to over-engineered authentication systems, AI fills every gap with something that seems useful. Here's why I spent a week removing features from an app that could have taken two days.
Building Your Personal Data Pipeline: Taking Control of Your AI Context
Companies leverage proprietary data for AI advantage. As individuals, we should too. I'm building my own personal data pipeline to make all my scattered context (notes, conversations, insights) searchable and mine. Here's why you should consider doing the same.
AI Use Case: Reclaim Your Focus and Follow-Through with AI Meeting Notes
Transform meetings with AI note-taking. Focus fully on conversations while AI creates summaries with action items. Learn the simple 4-step process plus advanced techniques to turn your meeting library into a searchable knowledge base.
Let AI Handle the Mundane While You Focus on the Strategic
We talk a lot about what AI can do, but what we don't talk about enough is how it frees us up to focus on what's really important.
Indulge me for a moment while I talk about how hard we had it in my day and
This meeting WILL also be an email
There is a popular meme that this meeting should have been an email. Why wasn't it an email? Because people frequently convey information in a way that is most comfortable and convenient for the conveyor. Current LLMs now provide unprecedented versatility in tailoring the form of a message
The Power of Process
On this last day of my challenge to publish 30 pieces of writing in 30 days, I'm feeling reflective. The key to making this challenge both navigable and helpful was focusing on the process, not the result. My goal was simple: publish every day. It didn't