I used to think the best way to come up with ways to use AI was to think about a painpoint or a problem and see if AI can make it better. I …

I used to think the best way to come up with ways to use AI was to think about a painpoint or a problem and see if AI can make it better. I no longer think that. Why? Because that put every person into a loss minimization mindset. They were thinking about time lost because they had to manually go through corporate forms. Or money lost because they had 0.1% more theft this year than the prior year. But what this misses (and what people need) is the ability to reason, reframe, and reinvent. I want more of us in growth mode or work reinvention mode. And less “how can we retrofit today’s tech to be slightly less painful.” To that end, one of the best things you can do is keep a log of what you do, who you are, why you make certain decisions over others, what you’re goaled on, where you have low and high friction in your role, who you work with, those people’s incentives and implicit tradeoffs, what your resources and constraints are, what your output is meant to be, and how you deliver value. Then pass that to Claude or ChatGPT or Gemini or whatever best model in whatever AI system you have access to, upload your context docs mentioned above, and prompt: “Here is who I am, what I do, what I stand for, and how I deliver value. I am ready and willing to burn down our current playbook and stand something new up in under as long as it means and a more sustainable business model. Read what I have shared and build out a full profile of me. Build up my 5 layers of why. My 5 forces. My explicit and implicit values. My ghost or unnamed blockers. Things I haven’t mentioned and open questions you have. Be so thorough and cut so deep that it feels like a mentalist is peering inside my brain. Based on all the context I’ve provided, ideate several dozen potential workshift changes I can make from multiple angles (people, tech, environment, customers, combinations). Make them radically different. Then score them on likelihood to hit my timeline, budget, tradeoff gained. Then take the top 50%, and morph them ie make edits that only experts in other fields would have brought up. Combine the evolved list with the original top 50%. Loop this process two more times. Present all top winning ideas back to me. Each idea should have a title, short description, and one concrete action I can take in the next 24 hours to kick it off. Be as specific and actionable as possible.” The original method assumed the human was the sole owner of taste and judgement. The new version acknowledges that AI is performant enough to work alongside the human. The original method was only about pain minimization. The new method is about possibility maximization.

Source: Allie K. Miller (X) | 2026-04-28