practical AI use

Meaningmaking includes all judgment calls, aesthetic preferences, and moral decisions that require determining what’s worth pursuing or believing. Here’s the critical insight: only humans can do meaningmaking work, while machines (including AI systems) cannot do meaningmaking work at all (yet).

Reflect on your daily annoyances. Notice those moments when you think to yourself, “I wish I had a tool for this.” Keep a journal or notes app handy to log every micro-frustration. Start with tasks or processes you repeat often. If you build a tool to handle something you face regularly, you’ll experience immediate relief every time you use it.

Rather than reaching definitive conclusions about how AI will transform work, I find myself collecting observations about a moving target. What seems consistent is that, for now, the greatest value comes not from surrendering control entirely to AI or clinging to entirely human workflows, but from finding the right points of collaboration for each... See more

the AI expertise conundrum

You don't need to learn any new hard skills to manage your AI intern. You just need to transfer over the same soft skills you've developed over your life collaborating with people. And, like any good working relationship, success comes down to the basics: clear communication, iterative feedback, shared context, and understanding your partner's... See more