This month I’ve been thinking about AI less as an operational assistant and more as a strategic layer sitting above everything else. Not just drafting or summarizing, but shaping how decisions are framed in the first place. The inputs I choose, the constraints I define, the metrics I track — those determine whether AI sharpens strategy or just accelerates activity.
I’m experimenting with using AI at the beginning of problems, not the end. Instead of asking it to polish an answer, I’m asking it to help define the question. When the framing improves, the downstream execution becomes cleaner. The leverage feels upstream.