AI is making me better at my work.
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 full-time employees at large enterprises use AI at work every week1
of workers had no AI training in the past year2
Lenovo Work Reborn 2026 (enterprise employees) · Dayforce Pulse of Talent 2025 (workers, six countries). Populations differ; both vendor-funded.
AI is not like any tech innovation we’ve seen before.
The technology
Moving, layered, changing every few months.
The gap
No manual, no shared practice, no one to compare notes with.
The work
Judgment, direction, correction. The part that is yours.
Generative AI reached roughly 44% adoption at work in one third of the time personal computers took.3
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.
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
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, December 2025 to January 2026. Vendor-funded research.
Dayforce, 16th Annual Pulse of Talent, October 2025. Survey of 6,954 workers across six countries, fieldwork July 22 to August 6, 2025. Vendor-funded research.
Real-Time Population Survey, May 2026, carried in the Federal Reserve's FRED. US adults 18 to 64. Adoption-speed comparison uses the one-third-of-the-time framing; raw chart endpoints sit at longer horizons and invert the finding.