I moustache ask AI a question

A while back I wrote about 20% AI time. Where the TLDR is that it felt too risky to drop everything to adopt AI, and instead an intentional, consistent and throughtful approach made more sense. We have to keep serving our existing customers and projects, it felt too overwhelming to go all in with AI. Not knowing where to start caused us not to do anything.

As part of this, we (actually, it was Simon's doing, he's good like that) set up a weekly 30-minute Claudette Weekly session, where we catch up to talk about what we've been up to with AI. What has worked, what hasn't, what ideas we have. It's been super helpful overall. In the period since April, we've gone from not using AI that much to including it as part of many processes. 

Often what we do is imperfect and fiddly. But we take the attitude that as long as we are finding efficiencies and improving quality output, then it is a win. And we are winning from that perspective. Sometimes the wins are tiny, but they get bigger and better over time.

Today I tapped into my Colombian roots and we used meeting filters and turned into giggling fits, thanks for the laugh Simon and Sarah! This has nothing to do with AI apart from it making me think about renaming Claudette to Pablo or Paula, and how I moustache them a question. 

From a learning and sharing perspective, I wanted to share this photo, just for fun, but I then turned it into a a hopefully helpful story. What I do feel is true is that this image is way better than ai generated image of our experience. More than ever, we need joy, fun and imperfection.

On a more serious note, weekly sessions are such a great way to keep focused on skill progression whilst also keeping intouch with your people and what's going on. It's a learning practice. Or some may refer to it as an internal community of practice. It's literally a repeat calendar session that makes it happen. Setting up internal learning can feel unnecessarily overwhelming, often the best things are kept simple. If you want to start an internal learning practice, perhaps start with a calendar invite.