AI is making me better at my job.
Not faster. Better. A few years ago my old playbook stopped working. I wasn't unemployed. I just wasn't employable.
“Without AI, I couldn't build this business or the life I want. It's giving me the tools to take the ideas in my head and turn them into design and code. It's kind of awesome what it's enabling me to do.”
Chris Meador, Founder, Yes And Thinking and Meet Daisy
No one is an expert in AI.
We're all figuring it out.
AI speeds up a process. It doesn't shorten it. You still go through every step, you just get there sooner. Anyone selling you a shortcut is selling you slop.
of employees use AI at work every week1
have had no training from their employer at all1
Lenovo, Work Reborn Research Series, 2026. Employee survey of 6,000 enterprise workers.
AI is not like any tech innovation we've seen before.
Every tool before this one came with a manual and held still. This one changes every few months and states its mistakes with total confidence.
That gap is what makes you feel behind. Ignore the noise.
We're all using AI. We're just not sure if we're using it right.
To come Body copy is being rewritten by Chris. One single block, headline plus body together.
The mindset is being able to say yes and to working with a robot.
Taking control comes down to four moves.
- Direct it.Say what you actually want, in your own words, the way you would brief a person.
- Feed it.Give it the context it cannot guess: your work, your standard, your taste.
- Correct it.When it comes back wrong, steer. It is a draft, not a verdict.
- Unstick it.When you freeze, go again, badly, and fix it live.
That is the start. The whole picture Bring it to your team
Is AI working for you, or are you working for it?
I'm Chris.
AI coach.
AI did not make this easier. It made it possible to do myself.
I spent twenty years in marketing, most of it at Microsoft, Facebook and Wistia. Then the playbook stopped working and I had to figure this out the way you're about to.
Telling a story of reading the room
Let's build together.
Sources and notes
Lenovo, Leading Your Workforce to Triumph with AI, Work Reborn Research Series, 2026. Survey of 6,000 full-time employees at enterprises with 1,000+ employees, conducted December 2025 to January 2026. The 31% figure is from this employee survey (users receiving no employer training), not the confidence figure from the separate CIO Playbook, which covers a different population.