I’ve had a few interactions with AI where I ask it a question, technical of course, it doesn’t give me the correct answer, I rephrase and/or learn more and ask again. I get another answer. I repeat the same process, only this time I get the initial answer that started us down this path. And this might go on for a few more interactions, partly because I want to see where it will go. But…
We’ve spent the last month getting ready for the winter – turning things off, putting away summer stuff, taking out winter gear, buying a snowblower – all the stuff that comes wtih the changing of the seasons from anything else to Winter. At the time of writing, it is snowing outside. There is no more work to do; we’ve done all we could do, and now it’s time to get through and live it.
If you don’t want to be challenged on your work, you have two choices; Don’t work (improbable). Do work where you won’t be challenged (i.e., something where we don’t care about the quantity or value of what you are doing). But you should want to be challenged in your work, you should want to be pushed, you should want to answer for your work. Because that is the only way you will get better.
I have tried nearly every task app, and none of them work. None of them beat the cheapest coiled notebook that I can draw in, doodle in, scribble down tasks, and map out ideas. None of them works; none is more productive than that $3.99 notebook. And I can buy two, three, or four of them in different colours for fractions of the monthly cost for AI and any app. The Notebook is forever unbeaten.
Five years ago, we went through a big event that changed the world, where everyone had to work from home. During that time, we got to peek into what everyone’s perfect work environment looks like, and if you looked closely, one thing became incredibly apparent. What works for you does not work for me, and vice versa. Through that, we got to see where people are most productive at what they do. And yes, work…