Working with AI

Use AI for work

Concrete task-based playbooks — email, meetings, research, weekly reports, second-brain capture.

01

Identify what to automate: the weekly audit

Track time for a week, find the 5 most mechanical tasks, decide which actually belong to AI. The trap of automating things that should not exist at all.

5 min read
02

The email triage playbook

Auto-categorize, draft replies, flag VIPs, archive newsletters. Concrete setup using Lindy, Zapier, or Claude.

7 min read
03

Replace your weekly report with AI

Pipe Slack, calendar, and notes into AI to generate weekly status, project updates, or board summaries.

6 min read
04

Calendar and meeting prep: never walk in cold again

Reclaim and Motion for the calendar, Granola and Crystal for the prep. A 5-minute morning ritual that buys you the whole day.

6 min read
05

From voice notes to a second brain

Capture thoughts as voice on the move, transcribe with Granola or Otter, route to Notion, Obsidian, or Mem with auto-tagging. Stop losing ideas.

6 min read
06

How to use AI for research

A 4-step model — map, find gaps, pressure-test, turn into output. With the failure modes (hallucinated sources, smeared comparisons, confident guesses) and how to verify before trusting.

8 min read
07

How to write better emails with AI

A 5-input model that stops AI emails from sounding like LinkedIn spam. Plus revision-mode (the underused move), a ban-list, and when not to use AI for email at all.

7 min read
08

How to use AI for meetings, notes, and follow-ups

Capture is table stakes. The value is decision extraction, action items with owners, and same-hour follow-ups. A practical model and the prompts that turn transcripts into work.

8 min read
09

How to use AI for spreadsheets and analysis

AI as analyst assistant — formula generation, cleanup, segmentation, anomaly spotting. With the dangerous failure modes (fabricated totals, spurious precision, causal claims from correlation) and when to use code-interpreter mode instead.

9 min read
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