How I'm using AI

Seems like just yesterday I was the millennial newbie causing all types of cool cultural disruption.

Today, however, I’m a victim of “gran millennial style.” I can’t let go of skinny jeans and there are memes all over the internet about how the 90’s kids are burnt out leaders, helicopter parents, and just plain terrible.

I suppose every generation has its moment in the sun.

On a more youthful note, I am dabbling in AI. I’d like to share with you, dear reader, what tools I’m currently using.?

1.??? Zoom meeting notes

Speaking of aging, gracefully of course. I can’t remember anything these days. Age, hormones, an abundance of data….all the things are pitted against me.

Notes have become my savior.

I click one button and an entire conversation is summarized into bite-sized sections. I put the notes back into my calendar before my next follow-up and I have the facts.

Here’s what’s cool. When I go back to the notes I often find something that I missed in the moment. Sometimes I completely miss a comment from my client that notes deemed relevant.

Also, I can’t stress how important facts are. The brain is excellent at synthesizing a conversation using an emotional lens. We remember things how we want to. Coming back to the notes allows me to be factually correct in the contents of the conversation. No more he said/she said or accidental memory errors.

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2.???? Chat GPT

Great for when I want to quickly amalgamate all the great business reading I’ve done over the past 20 years.

I use a prompt like: What exercise would be good for getting a brand new project team thinking about trust as a factor in their success. Pull on Simon Sinek and Patrick Lencioni for frameworks. Also, we run EOS, so how might that play into our needs?

Hit enter and be amazed.

I pride myself on knowing these tools and authors. I did the work, but would take me ?hours to create something that bring all of this together.

Chat will give me a great exercise. Then I can reply- this seems a little “soft’’ for engineers. Can you make it more tangible?

Then maybe something like- can you elaborate on how conflict and trust are related?

After about five renditions I have something that is rooted in expert work, relevant authors and has been personalized for my business. At most, this takes 30 minutes.?

The quality of the prompt matters. Sometimes it takes 5+ tweaks to get it right.

These two simple tools really have been game-changing. I feel like they just make me better at being me.

It’s like having a rock star personal assistant, who is never sick, never leaves, and just gets better with age.

Better with age. I like that.

May you Live and LeadWell,

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Post Script:

No, AI did not write this article. To date, AI has been woefully unable to match my level of wit and sarcasm. So it looks like the robots can take this blog from my cold, dead hands.

But seriously….I know they are coming for me.

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