Pillar 04
Work smartly with AI
Real gains in efficiency and effectiveness — without getting silly. A short, opinionated guide.
Do
- Treat AI as a draftsman, you're the editor
- Verify anything that matters — names, numbers, citations
- Keep your own judgement in the loop on consequential decisions
- Use it to widen options, then narrow with your own taste
- Write better prompts: context, constraint, example
Don't
- Don't outsource the thinking on things you'll be held accountable for
- Don't paste private data into tools you don't control
- Don't trust confident-sounding answers without checking
- Don't replace conversations with humans when the point is the conversation
- Don't let it write things you wouldn't sign your name to