My Little Library

I didn’t notice it at first but there in the back corner of my laptop, I’ve been assembling a little library.

The library doesn’t contain books, but scraps of text that explain what an AI should do.

Visit Anthropic’s home page & you’ll find their collection :

Each of us will assemble these little libraries with tracts like :

• write a blog post in my voice about this topic
• collect action items to send to the team from team notes & format them in this particular way
• analyze the P&L for the finance team paying particular attention to gross margin
• write a performance review using the company’s stated evaluation rubric for my teammates
• summarize a competitor’s webpage every month to detect changes in positioning

As we work in a role, we have assemble these workflows and kept them to ourselves.

But partnered with reasonably competent robots who thrive on these programs, we are starting to write them down, explain exactly what we do step by step, and how we work. We will adorn them with our own idiosyncracies & unique lenses.

That little library will contain the secrets to how we each do our jobs. We will need software to create them, share them, update them, measure them, & run them.

The better our little libraries become, the more effective we will be at work.