My weekly routine

I’ve noticed recently how the advent of AI tools has significantly changed my work routine during the course of the week. Historically, Monday morning has been “Well that was a nice weekend, what the hell was I doing at work?”. This then takes me to my scribbled notes about what I was working on and what was left undone.

The problem with this approach is that it can keep you in the task-oriented world rather than stepping back to looking at your higher level goals. Rather than thinking “How are we going to win this market? What were those great ideas I had a few weeks ago? How can I make progress on the bigger picture?”, we jump straight into the pile of TODOs.

My way round this is to use my own AI bot “Skynet”, as an additional copilot*. All of my knowledge from the last 13 years including a recency bias adjustment accessible through a simple interface. This means that every Monday morning I can do research from my knowledge about how to address the issues at hand.

A simple example from this morning, I was looking for some research I had done a couple of years ago about marketing performance measurements – leads, MQLs, opp values, reporting approaches. Rather than trawling through my old notes, a lot of which is in my own childlike handwriting (so yes, good OCR is key to this process), I just ask Skynet and it gives me a well structured starting point which includes all of those little details that I would otherwise forget. This last point is the most important of why building your own chatbot is important. ChatGPT will give you generic answers but you have your own experience that you need to include, otherwise you might as well just do a Google search.

_{* Microsoft has the best brand name here, just not quite the best product yet…}