The Workflow Architect, Episode 3 Last time you wrote one sentence. A task you do over and over that costs more than it should. This episode takes that sentence apart, and then decides which pieces of it a machine gets to touch. Catching up? Episode 1 is Tools Are Rented. Workflows Are Owned….Read more
Four buckets, one search, a sorting check, four questions, and the box where the teaching happens. Worked example: should AI slow down? Everything below is what the video does, written out with every prompt so you can copy it. Open the finished notebook to follow along or use it with a class. Why this exists…Read more
Last time I gave you a ladder with four rungs and asked you to write down yours. Most of you wrote a two. That’s fine. This episode is the first step off it, and it has nothing to do with picking a tool. If you missed Episode 1, it’s here: Tools Are Rented. Workflows Are…Read more
The Workflow Architect, Episode 1 Somewhere in the last two years you got shown a lot of AI tools. A conference session, a PD day, a colleague sending a link with “you have to try this.” Twenty of them. Maybe thirty. Here is the question I ask every room I work with: how many of…Read more
After 200-plus episodes and a long stretch of silence, I’m back and the format has changed. I’ve spent the last few years standing in front of rooms in K-12, higher ed, business, and industry, saying more or less the same thing: co-pilot, not autopilot(at least to start). Humans in or on or out of the…Read more
If you’ve ever asked an AI tool for a file, followed the steps, and hit “Imported 0 out of 0 events,” this one is for you. I’ve seen it more than once now, from people who did everything right. Here’s what usually happened. You asked for a calendar file. The AI wrote a program that…Read more
This is part 10 of Growing With AI, a documented season of learning, gardening, and AI collaboration. The rose bloomed today. Not pretty, not full, leaves rough, but a bloom nonetheless. Not a dramatic statement. Not a metaphor. The David Austin rose that spent the winter in my garage as a collection of dormant sticks, that…Read more
This is part 9 of Growing With AI, a documented season of learning, gardening, and AI collaboration. There are weeks in a project where everything that was planned starts happening all at once. April 16 was that week for the garden. The Eden Brothers shipment arrived with perennial roots and dahlia tubers I had ordered in…Read more
This is part 8 of Growing With AI, a documented season of learning, gardening, and AI collaboration. Somewhere in late April I stood in my kitchen and living room and counted. Four grow lights. Seven seed trays. Four dahlia pots on the windowsill. Two dahlia pots on the counter. A tray of gomphrena on the…Read more
This is part 7 of Growing With AI, a documented season of learning, gardening, and AI collaboration. I want to be honest about something before we get into the numbers. I spent $441.94 on seeds, bulbs, and perennial roots for a garden that had already cost me several hundred dollars the year before in plants…Read more