How I Use (And Don't Use) AI In My Business (An Extended Conversation From The Blog)

On Monday I published a post over on the blog that took me no less than 25 hours to write about how I use (and don’t use) AI at my company (both systems and design programs). I’ve copied the whole thing at the end of this post for those who don’t want to click out of substack. It’s a nuanced, long read from a female business owners perspective, but I was so happy to see that there is at least one subject on the planet that most people can agree on right now. Somehow AI hasn’t yet become ‘politicized’ (as in a right or left issue like everything else seems to be). Similar to how kids + social media = bad, most people agree that while AI is here to stay (and helpful in some fields) came too fast and too unregulated (and as of now just isn’t that helpful).

My process on these larger posts takes so long because I usually have so much to say, so I brain-dump it all into 15 pages (in the form of a rant). Then while suffering through my own redundancies I can start to see the through-lines to create an actual thesis. The process of writing it made my feelings more clear to me. Which, ironically, is one the main reasons why we haven’t adopted more AI in my company (the process of thinking and writing is the most important part).

So while Brian and I are on our family vacation (California dude ranch with his parents) I thought I’d surface some of the best reader comments from the post. At the end I ask for examples from real people on how they are using AI in a way that truly benefits them (not just the promise of making life easier, while oddly making our day to day more complicated).