Hey, it’s Traci.
You’ve heard me say AI is a tool you teach, like a green new hire. Good. Now let’s put that new hire to work - today, on something real, so you actually feel it.
Here’s the first job to hand it. Not a fancy one. The one you’ve been avoiding.
You know the email you keep not writing. The reply you owe somebody. The bio you’ve rewritten in your head nine times. The thing that’s been sitting there making you feel behind. That one.
Here’s how, and it takes about five minutes:
Step 1 - Open your AI. Tell it who you are and what you’re doing - a sentence or two, like you’d brief a new hire. “I’m a [whatever]. I need to write a [thing] to [who]. I want it to sound [warm / short / no-nonsense].”
Step 2 - Give it the mess. Paste your rough notes, or just talk it through out loud. Don’t clean it up first - that’s its job, not yours.
Step 3 - Read what it hands back. It won’t be perfect. Good. Tell it what’s off: “too stiff,” “cut it in half,” “that’s not how I’d say it.” Watch it fix it.
Step 4 - Take the version that sounds like you - and send it.
That’s the win. Not “I built an app.” Just: the thing you were dreading is done, in your voice, in five minutes instead of five days of avoiding it.
And that’s the whole game, at every level. You don’t learn AI by studying it. You learn it by handing it one real job and correcting it until it sounds like you. Do that once and something clicks - it stops being scary and starts being useful.
So here’s your assignment this week: pick the one thing you’ve been avoiding. Hand it over. Fix it. Send it. Then hit reply and tell me what it was - I read every one.
You’re not behind. You just hadn’t handed it a job yet.
Talk soon,
Traci
P.S. Want the short version to keep by your desk? I made a free one-pager - grab it at ducttapeworld.com. And if you want to follow along as I build this whole thing out in the open, reply with “ride-along” and I’ll pull you in.