Category: Productivity

A Use Case for AI

Submitting insurance claims is one activity I would gladly delegate to AI and automation. The transition from paper forms and snail mail to online data entry definitely improved the process. However, the transformation wasn’t enough to create a real high-quality…

Tidying vs. Cleaning

Some people excel in the art of tidying up. Though there are some merits to tidying, most of the time, it results in future “make work” projects. This has been my experience when tidying, instead of cleaning and organizing, is…

AI Missing the Obvious

I’ve been using my AI goggles for almost a year now. In the beginning I plodded along with my same boring workouts. Except for the first time, I could visually see how boring the sets were in the recorded results.…

The Skunk and the Samaritan

About a week ago I scratched my cornea helping to clean my neighbor’s front yard. She’s older and I noticed some pulled plants drying on the front lawn. After bagging those, I was pulling some dead matter from the yucca.…

Work Life Boundaries

After the impacts of covid, when more people started working from home, work hours became blurry. At some point they developed a work hours policy at my job. Basically, it allows us to have some flexibility with our work day,…