Thanks to Meredith Kepron, Alex Pawlowski, and everyone else who showed up today!
Earlier this week, I was reading about a product manager whose company brought someone in to sit with one of their departments and build tools for them directly, fast, with AI. Without the PM acting as a middleman and without the dev team involved in the build. A few months later, that department goes to this contractor for everything, and when he asked his manager if his job was safe, he was told he was fine ‘for the time being.’
Today’s live walks through what AI is doing to the analyst and PM job, and gives you a three-bucket framework for sorting your own week:
Absorbed: the boring work AI takes off your plate right now.
Compounding: the work worth more the more your team builds on their own.
And At Risk: the go-between work one person with an AI tool now carries for you.
Try it before Sunday. Take your last week, put every task in each bucket, and be honest about the At Risk pile. You’ll see how exposed you are.
This Sunday I’m publishing the follow-up to today’s live, ‘How to Become the One Person Your Company Can’t Route Around.’ It teaches you how to judge what a tool will cost your company after someone builds it. Whether it works past the first 50 users. What it costs to keep running. What it locks you into that’s expensive to undo. Paid subscribers get the full skill this Sunday. It’s the part of the Compounding bucket that keeps you valuable.
Which area of your week is taking up the most time at the moment? Drop it in the comments. I want to see where everyone’s exposed.
While you’re here, grab my free resources:
Free for subscribers of The Data Letter: the AI Readiness Checklist. Score where your team is with AI adoption instead of guessing.
Free for subscribers of Between Thinking and Doing: the Friction Audit. Find what’s blocking your work.
