Scott Kosman talking about how, as a manager, he uses AI.
Management work happens in your head with dozens of open loops spinning at once, and suddenly using AI gave me a safe way to unload that noise without judgment or consequence. Some days my brain becomes a bag of cats and I can quickly spin myself in circles with too many scattered thoughts competing for mindshare at the same time. Being able to hammer those down into a prompt window in no particular order and ask “what am I really trying to say here?” has saved me literal hours of effort in a single day.
I’ve come to think of it as cognitive offloading. By pushing my internal monologue into a medium that reflects it back to me more clearly, I preserve energy for the parts of leadership that actually matter: listening, coaching, connecting.
This is similar to the approach that I use.
I am working as a project manager for a project where <insert the project description with client background>. I need to <insert problem statement, it can be vague but needs to include all your thoughts in any order>. I have an idea of using <some framework>. Can you use that as a reference and give me some guidance?
The above prompt gives a pretty good starting point for me.
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