Small Steps, Big Impact: Integrating AI Organically

Hi friends

The best way to integrate AI into your daily life is to start from where you currently are.

What does that even mean? Let's break it down:

1. We all have tasks that are part of our daily life

2. We all use some software or productivity tools

Think about everyday jobs like making shopping or packing lists, scheduling activities, budgeting, meal planning, and managing our time. Now, consider how AI can assist with these.

This may be as simple as making better use of voice assistants like Alexa or Siri or leveraging AI chatbots such as Claude or GPT to help generate lists, plan tasks, and recommend menus.

Or, you might explore simple automation by adding 'if this; then that' connections between actions. You'll find some examples of these in the AI@workflow section below.

For work tools, start by uncovering the “AI Inside”; the AI capabilities already baked into your existing productivity apps.

Like a sprinkling of fairy dust 🧚 AI enhancements are often integrated into popular business software - sometimes without users even realizing it's there.

Not sure how to check this?

Let's say you're using Google Workspace. Simply ask your chosen AI assistant to list all the AI enhancements available. I asked Claude, and you can find its answer below.

Start small, experiment, and gradually incorporate AI where it makes the most sense for you.

AI SMORGASBORD

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A new generation of Luddites, or voices of reason? Company after company is swallowing the hype, only to be forced into embarrassing walkbacks by anti-AI backlash.

AI MADE EASY

One of the best ways to recognize what a great pal an AI assistant chatbot can be is to start with small, relatable, personal tasks.

Below are 15 tasks that AI will take in its stride.

A Sprinkling of AI Fairy Dust 🧚 🧚 🧚 

This was the response from Claude 3.5 when asked it to list the AI features in Google Workspace:

THROUGH A-EYES

Another outstanding video from the team at Futurepedia doing a far, far better job than I ever could at reviewing the latest and greatest video generation platforms.

0:00 Intro 0:24 Runway Gen-3 4:11 Dream Machine 7:28 LTX Studio 12:06 Krea 16:00 Video Upscaler 17:28 Hedra 18:36 Runway Lip Sync 18:53 LivePortrait 19:41 ComfyUI AnimateDiff 21:15 Kling 22:54 Futurepedia

AI@WORKFLOW

IFTTT (If This Then That) is a user-friendly integration platform that enables us to create simple “Applets” that link a specific action to a tailored outcome. IFTTT differs from say, Zapier, in that it offers a host of home-focused mini-automations, as well as business ones.

IFTTT APPLET EXAMPLES

Sometimes it’s the little things 😀 

FREE RESOURCES

CURIOUS CAT

Meet Jackson Barn Cat a.k.a. JBC, office manager, resident AI-whisperer, and all-around curious cat. Each week he’ll nose bop a new challenge 😺

THE LAST WORD

A quick update on our recent delivery experiment. Switching from Tuesday to Sunday mailings worked. Our open and engagement rates increased, which is great news.

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