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Are you using your AI meeting notes? (opens the original)
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Most of us are used to meetings getting recorded and a summary shows up afterward. They look all kinds of different ways depending on the tool. My question: are you using it? Is it actually producing something useful for you, or is it a thing that arrives and gets skimmed and disappears?I’ve been thinking about what meetings are for when AI is in the mix. I think they should be for shared sense-making, mostly. How are you seeing this? Here’s how I’m seeing it. Interesting. What does that tell us
Here's the language I've been building with (opens the original)
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Human-AI Workflow Design is public.You can read the whole standard at humanaiworkflowdesign.com. Or you can skip the reading, download the full text from Human-AI Workflow Design: the complete standard for your AI, drop it into whatever AI you use, and just talk to it. Ask it what it is. Ask it how it would apply to something you’re doing this week. That’s the fastest way in, and it’s how most of the people who tried it in our previ
What do you want to be true by December? (opens the original)
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Happy September, folks.What a summer. I take a long holiday in August, and this year I got up to all kinds of things that had nothing to do with AI. Whitewater canoeing with dear friends. Time at the cottage with my daughters. A week at home building a new fire pit patio. Lots of movement, lots of being outdoors, exactly what I wanted out of a summer.One other thing happened while I was away. Human-AI Workflow Design is officially released. If you want to look at the notation you can read it at
A year and a half ago, I couldn't build this (opens the original)
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A year and a half ago I had an idea I couldn’t build.I called it a collective intelligence loop. That name makes me wince a little now, because collective intelligence is one of those phrases AI loves to say. But I meant something specific by it.Here’s the idea. Get leaders from different organizations in the same sector. Run a scan across what’s happening in the world: the trends, the signals, the things that are visible if someone is actually looking. Add an interpretation of what we think it
This Is What My Week Looks Like Now (opens the original)
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Nine months ago, I wrote a piece called “From the Mouse to the Chat Window.” The mouse seemed silly at first. A box with a cord and a ball. But paired with a graphical user interface, it became something extraordinary.I said AI chat might be the same. A new input device. And if you treated it relationally instead of transactionally, something different would happen.Nine months later, it’s real.I’m writing this piece while working out. Voice memo running on my phone. In between sets, I’m thinking
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