I spent nearly two decades working in communications. I love taking complex things and simplifying them. I also am really good at spotting gaps and finding solutions. And mainly that energy was directed at corporate problems.
This year I’m leaving the corporate version of that work so that I can be home before dark and spend more time with my family. That also means I can work on solutions to all my household to-do lists… school calendars, freezer inventories, the whole invisible job. As I work with AI to reduce the mental load, I’ll be sharing what works and what doesn’t on this site.
This might surprise you… but I’m not a gadget person. There’s a robot vacuum, and that’s about where it ends. In my opinion, most of that “smart” stuff is overly-complicated clutter with a subscription attached.
But the AI already on my phone? That, I use every day.
It reads the dry erase board on my freezer. It plans dinner around the nights I commute. It gives me a morning rundown of everything I have on my plate that day and reminds me about spirit week days I would have forgotten about. It has also gotten stuff wrong, and planned my whole week around chicken I didn’t have. I write about both.
What you’ll find here
Every post takes one thing off the household to-do list, shows how I handed it to AI, and gives you the version you can try tonight. And where .
What I won’t do
I won’t tell you AI is magic. It’s not. It’s a tool. I’ve found it to be a really useful tool, but it takes some time to learn your preferences and styles, and with any tool… you should always check its work.
I won’t recommend a gadget for a problem your phone camera solves.
And I won’t show you the highlight reel and call it a system. When something I built falls apart, that goes on the site too. The failures are usually the useful part.
The honest state of things
It’s working… mostly. It needs refinement. What AI can do is changing constantly. I already have a dozen more ideas.
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