You run an office
Email, forms, regulations, grants and hard meetings.
Start here
Not sure what AI would actually do for you? Read these five, in order. Each one is a real example from my own work or home, and each one says where the AI fell short.
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Read this one first
When the AI is wrong, and when it says no
Know the limits before anything else. This is the post I would hand to a skeptic.
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The smallest place to begin
Everyday email: tone, humor and the question you forgot to answer
You already write email. This is the lowest-risk way to try AI on something real.
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It works at home too
Small life questions
Nothing here needs a job title. Three ordinary questions and how they went.
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The work that used to wait
Checklists, flyers and forms in an afternoon
The dull, useful documents every office needs and never gets around to.
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Where it can lead
Building custom software without being a professional developer
Once the small things work, you start asking for tools. This is how that went for me.
Then follow what you care about
You'd rather try than read
Four of my work tools run right here with made-up data, and every post in the series ends with a prompt you can copy.
You have kids
Games and comics I built for River, and how.
You want all of it
The full list: 27 ways I actually use AI, with a post on each.