HeyJaredJac Ford
Practical AI tips for women returning to work after time out with family. Learn how to use ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini to organise work, family life, and reduce mental load. Without jargon, hype or tech bro energy.
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Darrell called a budget meeting. I brought Claude. (opens the original)
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Let me introduce you to Darrell. Darrell isn’t a person, he’s the wrapper to my Perimenopause symptoms. More precisely, Darrell represents the panic attacks, anxiety spirals, dark depressive thoughts, self loathing, paranoia, night sweats, and crushing self-doubt that seems to turn up out of nowhere every few weeks or when I forget to take my nightly dose of progesterone. Darrell gives no fucks about what else is going on when he turns up uninvited and gives very little warning. Nobody warns you
The AI prompt that helps your kids think, not just finish. (opens the original)
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This week, my three kids, all in different year groups (6, 4, 2) decided to hit me with every assignment known to primary school, all at once. A diorama on a waterway. 3 x speeches on multiculturalism - all with slightly different focus topics to choose from. And a cereal box book report, because apparently that’s a thing now. WTF??Time to heat up the glue gun, and warm up Claude… This is certainly a job for AI. Done by bedtime. Glass of wine, and some couch time was in my future. But no, I didn
Introducing Fordify.ai (yes, I named it after myself, no I'm not sorry) (opens the original)
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In my day job as AI innovation lead at Newscorp I have trained over 1500 staff members on ways to use our AI Enterprise tools, and I’ve helped build team specific agentic solutions to help with bespoke use cases. And you know what, I actually love it. Like back in the days of playing the glory position of GA on the netball court, everyone loves the person that helped them save hours on a mind numbing task or cracked the “how do I get AI to build my presentation” requests that came up in every.si
'Skills' to pay the bills. (opens the original)
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A few weeks ago, someone at work pulled me aside and asked if I could do a quick explainer on the Skills function in Glean - the Enterprise Search and Assistant that we’ve rolled out for staff. They wanted me to help the team understand what they are, when to use them, that kind of thing. My internal response: absolutely not.Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<inpu
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