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The Amazing Intern - Turning Your A.I. Curiosity Into Confidence
Ep 111 - The Execution Paradox: Why using AI doesn't make the work any less yours
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Switch upfront payment of $45 for 3 month plan equivalent to $15 per month Required intro rate first 3 months only, then full price plan options available, taxes and fees extra. See full terms@mintmobile.com hey, it's Kerry. Hey. This week on the show I'm going to dive into something that is really creating an emotional barrier to folks using and finding value in AI. And that's the difference between something that is created by AI and something that is executed by AI. It's probably the single biggest barrier in the conversations I have to folks digging in and using a tool that would benefit them greatly. If that sounds interesting to you, stick with me and I'll see you on the other side of the music. Foreign. To the Chat GPT experiment, this is the podcast designed to help curious folks better understand how to use tools like Claude and Chat GPT to get a nugget of value for your personal or professional needs. My name is Kerry Weston and I'm your host. And this week I want to talk about the difference between a couple terms and terms being executed and created. And it comes up a lot in my conversations specifically with businesses and business folks that are skeptical about AI, specifically around replacing human thought, replacing human jobs. The insecurity that comes around saying I use AI, where does this land? Just in the past, I'd say two weeks alone, I've had creative folks, folks that write for a living, I've had sales folks, I've had a business owner be really apprehensive about AI. We don't touch it, we don't use it, we don't want to. I might use it to look up a fact, but that's it. Like there's a real demarcation in that insecurity around admitting that AI is used. And so I've been digging into it a little bit and I think the line, the demarcation line that I want to talk about is the difference between something created by AI and something that was executed by AI. And to illustrate this a little bit, I want to tell you a story. I got up this morning specifically about 5:30 and I had an idea because I've Been wanting to play with Claude, specifically, I've been wanting to play with some of these connectors and whatnot. I don't feel like I've really dug in enough, and I do a lot of writing myself. And my writing typically starts this way. Literally, what I'm doing right now, my writing usually starts with me talking and recording myself just to talk out loud, because I talk very differently than I write. The restrictions of having my fingers on a keyboard or looking at a blank piece of paper or whatnot, you know, on a screen, is not present when I'm talking. I just can get ideas out, and then I can organize my thoughts. I don't think linear enough to write from start to finish using my fingers. And for some reason, I also am challenged by. When I'm writing, literally typing, I'm challenged by editing on the fly. And that's. That just gets in my way, right? So I do a lot of recording for the podcast, of course, and just ideas in general. And then I take the transcript and I analyze it, and I. I use writing tools inside Claude, and I create outlines and whatnot. And then I turn those into articles or posts that maybe they live on my website or maybe they go onto LinkedIn or maybe they go out in an email or any combination of that. And so what I wanted to do was automate that whole thing. So I spent some time today figuring out with Claude how to use connectors that are built into Claude specifically, that would connect and talk to the software that I'm already using. So for the sake of the. For instance, here I record. I'm recording this now, and I record other stuff in a tool called Description. And descript is great for me to record audio or video. And one of the things that I like is it's very easy to edit, but it is also an instant transcript creator. Okay? So that transcript lives in descript. And so with Claude, I had two connections that I wanted to make. I wanted Claude to get the transcript out of descript when I have one of these talking sessions, and on the backside, when I'm done, when I have a product that I want to use, I want Claude to connect to my WordPress website automatically and post something that I could review and approve. And then in the middle, I want it to analyze what I've said, get the idea, structure the article, use my resources like voice, tone and style and my rules and my structure and my preferred methods and all the things that I've been able to define to put that article together. Okay? And so the reason I'M sharing this with you is it's a really good illustration of created by versus executed by AI. Okay, so everything that is happening right now is coming out of my head, it's coming out of my mouth. The ideas are in my brain, I'm talking out loud and I am sharing information. I just happen to be recording it.
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That recording is authentically me. My thoughts are me. The transcript is going to include just a written word of what I'm saying. Okay? So all I'm doing is. I am. Maybe you've heard me say this in the podcast before. I am shrinking what I call the busy middle. Okay, so as a review, there are three phases to most projects that we use a computer for. Phase one is the ideation, the planning. That. What are we doing? Why are we doing it? What's it going to look like? All of the details that goes to the structure of thinking out loud, the idea. The second phase is what I call the busy middle. And this is the tedious work. Sometimes it's repetitive and sometimes it's time consuming, and sometimes it takes too long because it's a repetitive task. And oftentimes the busy middle is where we can suck our time and our energy out and it doesn't leave us enough time or maybe even willingness to, to put the energy that would add real value in it in phase three. And this is the expertise phase, this is the polishing phase. This is where you use your insight, your experience, your expertise to edit and make it as fine as it can be as possible. Oftentimes, phase three, the value phase, is diminished because we put so much time into the busy middle. In fact, you know, good enough comes from that scenario, right? And so what I'm doing here by illustrating, executed by versus created by, show you how I can get this stuff out of my head and then use a tool like AI to shrink that busy middle. And so it's going to pull in the transcript automatically because I've wired the connectors today. And it's going to review my voice tone and style. It's going to review my approach to writing articles. It's going to review some of the rules, the do's and the don'ts. It's going to review. This is really good too. I was so happy that I found this. It's going to review my objective audience editing rules that I have, which means anytime I write something, I want to take the empathetic position of my audience into consideration. I want it to read. So I want Claude, in this instance, to read the draft through the objective and empathetic position of my reader. And I want to make sure that I'm not creating confusion, that I'm creating clarity. I want to know if I have opened any questions that I didn't close. I want to know if the reader reading this would have additional questions that I didn't even bring up. Is there anything that I need to change in order to make this more effective and more clear? Do I have to simplify something? Did I leave something out that the average person that I'm writing for would ask, wonder, consider, or find value? Right. So it's going through all of those things now. Again, these are all of the things that I've defined. I've created them as resource documents, I've created them as models, and I'm just simply executing through an AI tool. Okay, Again, all authentically me, but for the sake of consistency and in this regard, expediency. Right. I'm shrinking that busy middle. I'm just asking a tool to do what I would do normally through the rules and the processes that I've defined. And then once it does that, it's now taking the final output, which in this case is an article, and it is opening my WordPress website admin area, and it's logging in and creating a post that is now ready to be published. Okay? Now, that entire process after a transcript is created. So once I'm done talking, I executed it this morning. Once I have a transcript that I can tell Claude that I want them to work with or wanted to work with, takes about four and a half minutes to go through all of those steps that I've defined. Okay? And I ended up with an article today that I was really happy with. And none of it was created by AI, all of it was executed by AI. And there's a remarkable difference there. A remarkable difference. And it's a difference that I'm going to spend some time in the workshops and seminars that I have, in the podcast here, in the clients that I have. I want to make sure I am doubling down on having that explanation, having that conversation with as many people as I possibly can, because it's a real constraint. It's a mental roadblock created versus executed by. And I'm hoping that I can increase confidence in folks to understand the difference and to understand that you don't have to apologize for executing with a tool as long as you are creating. Right. As long as you are authentic and consistent and real. I want to do this because the instance that I've just laid out with you has been such an incredible time saver for me. It's been such an incredible value add to my work that it's like sharing a gift. Anytime you can make somebody's life easier, anytime you can open their eyes, anytime you can make somebody aware to something that adds incredible value. It's an opportunity, unlike, you know, a lot of things that we have in life, to improve somebody's life to. To show them what's possible. Because there's such common frustrations in the workforce on busy work, less than valuable time spent doing mundane things. And I've said it before, we hire a lot of people for their experience and their expertise, but we pay them to be busy. And there's a big difference in that busy middle. It waters down the value of the person in a professional role. They don't get to use their experience, their insights, and their expertise as much as they should because they're so tied up in the treadmill of the busy middle. Right. And you can probably think of something in your own professional life that takes more time than you wish it should. It's just mundane, but it's necessary. And so the difference between created by and executed by, I think, is an important and important detail in the conversation we need to have with our teammates, with our colleagues, with friends or whatever. Then when the conversation comes up about, I would never use AI to do that, the ability is to do what, right? To have the conversation around to do what. And I think it's important for us to define what is it that you're asking AI to do? What are you trusting it to do? And if you're trusting it with a process to take things that are authentically yours and make your life easier, why in the heck would you not do that?
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So I know by listening to this that you are a curious individual, and so your curiosity is going to take you far. And the ability for you to find ways in which AI can execute what's authentically yours and make your life easier is something that you have the gift. Curiosity is a gift. And giving you more confidence to use that curiosity is exactly why I created this podcast, and it's exactly why I'm sharing things like this. I hope that you can see the opportunity to utilize that curiosity to your benefit. And so I'd welcome your thoughts on the difference between executed by and created by. I think it's something that I've got to get a little simpler. I've got to be able to share it so that more people can understand it quickly because it probably at this moment is the singular largest roadblock to people seeing how a tool like Claude or ChatGPT or others can be such a substantial gift, could be such a substantial benefit in their daily work, and it certainly could free them up to be more valuable to whatever mission they have in their daily life. So good. Thank you for listening. And just to let you know, this recording is going to become an article and it's going to be executed by Claude. It's going to be created by me, but it's going to be executed by Claude. So when you see the article pop up on my website or LinkedIn or whatnot, know that it came through a process that I've defined, but that process was authentically and consistently me. Okay, the website is chatgptexperiment.com and I've got an announcement coming up on this. Soon the name of the podcast is going to be changing. I think it's time. It's time to look at this through a different lens, and I've got that in the works. But for now, ChatGPT experiment.com is where you can contact me. There's some resources there. And you will find the article that will come from this particular recording that will have been executed by Claude. Okay? So as always, your curiosity is the most important element to you being effective in learning how to use any tool. And so, until we talk again, I appreciate you listening. Do stay curious. Okay, bye. Bye.