Weekly reviews have a bad reputation, and it’s deserved. Most of them involve a template with fourteen sections, and by week three you’re doing the review to keep the review happy. The version that survives is small, slightly scrappy, and takes about fifteen minutes on a Friday afternoon. Mine is one chat, three questions, one
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Most advice about AI at work is a list of things to try. This one goes the other way. Knowing where to stop is what keeps you trusted, and being the person who used it badly in front of a client is a hard reputation to shake off. Here are the moments I keep it
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Meal planning apps are lovely right up until the week they don’t fit your life. The reason is nearly always the same. They don’t know that Tuesday is late football, that one of you won’t touch fish, or that there’s half a bag of spinach in the fridge quietly going slimy. A reusable prompt does
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Family admin is death by a thousand small tasks. The trip form that needs a reply by Tuesday. The after-school club that quietly moved its start time. The dentist who only answers the phone between nine and ten. None of it is hard, and all of it eats your evening. AI won’t ring the dentist
AI for school emails, forms, and family admin Read Post »
Most meetings end with everyone saying “great, thanks” and then nothing happening. It isn’t laziness. The notes live in six different notebooks, and nobody wants to be the person who writes the summary. Here’s a five-minute habit that fixes most of it. All you need is a rough transcript, or even your own scrappy notes.
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You know the thread. Fourteen replies, two people added halfway through, three attachments with almost the same file name, and buried in the middle is a question that needs answering by Friday. Reading it again rarely helps. What helps is turning the mess into a decision you can send. Paste the whole thread, not your
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I had a browser folder called “AI stuff”. When I finally went through it last month there were thirty odd links sitting in it. Tools I had signed up for, used twice, and never opened again. Each one had felt, at the time, like the missing piece. Not one of them changed my week. What
Stop collecting AI tools. Reuse one boring prompt. Read Post »
Monday mornings used to get away from me. I would open the laptop at half eight with good intentions, then look up at eleven having done nothing except read emails and feel slightly behind. What changed was not a new app. It was three prompts I now reuse every week. Same wording, different week. They
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