Good morning,

I'm writing this email from a Starbucks in Arizona and this weather is amazing! Because I'm traveling...I am away from work; however, there's something I want you to try:

Think about everything you did at work this past week.

How much of it truly required your judgment, expertise, creativity, or interaction with another person?

Now think about the time you spent researching, preparing reports, organizing information, writing routine emails, or handling all the smaller tasks that fill up your day.

That's where I want you to start looking for AI opportunities.

Cogito ____ (coming soon):

August 10th

What's Going on:

Write down 10 tasks you did at work this week, then sort them into three categories:

• Keep Human: Decisions, relationships, leadership, and work that requires your judgment.
• Do With AI: Use AI to research, analyze, brainstorm, draft, and prepare.
• Let AI Handle More: Use AI to summarize notes, format documents, organize information, and handle recurring admin work.

Not sure where each task belongs? Paste your list into ChatGPT and ask it to categorize each one and identify exactly where AI could save you time.

I included the exact prompt you can copy and paste below in the prompt of the day section.

Why it matters to you:

Now look at the tasks you put under Do With AI and Let AI Handle More. Pick the 2 or 3 you repeat most often, but don’t just look at the task itself. Break it into individual steps.

You'll probably discover that the entire task doesn't need AI, but several time-consuming steps inside it do.

For example, if you regularly research competitors, you might spend hours visiting websites, reading announcements, and organizing your findings. Instead, collect the relevant information and give it to ChatGPT. Ask it to compare what changed, identify important differences, organize the findings into a table, and flag anything worth investigating further.

You decide what those changes mean for your business and AI handles the sorting/comparison so you can spend more time on analysis rather than busy work.

Prompt of the Day:

Save Time/Money:

One of the easiest places to save time is the work that happens after a meeting. Instead of spending 20 minutes turning scattered notes into a recap, action items, and follow-up emails, give ChatGPT your notes or transcript and have it organize everything for you.

Ask it to pull out the key decisions, assign action items by person, flag unanswered questions, and draft the follow-up emails you need to send. You still review everything for accuracy, but you've turned several manual steps into one simple review process.

If you do this regularly, build a custom GPT that follows the same format and instructions after every meeting. You set up the workflow once, then reuse it each week. Check out my recent YouTube video for an introduction to creating your own GPTs.​

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Now it's the end of the work week and here's my challenge to you: audit 10 tasks, find one you shouldn't be doing manually, and use AI to build a better way to do it.

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Zack