Your Vault is Your Moat (138)

I’ve been experimenting with changing how I work with the help of AI for a couple of years now, and realize few of those experiments have made it into the newsletter. My reflections here usually revolve around the collective state of things in AI, but sometimes it’s useful to step back from the big picture and pay attention to the trees. What’s obvious to some isn’t for others, and I’m often reminded that how we work at Envisioning is anything but typical. My context is unlikely to be like yours – my work is independent, self-guided, and largely self-motivated – and while the shape of your work will be different, I hope some of this resonates.Contextual knowledgeThe gap between what you know and what AI knows can be surprising. AI has the average of the world’s information baked into its core, whereas you and I have spiky and unpredictable knowledge of the world. The organizations you work with are probably similar – they contain institutional and tacit knowledge from countless…