I guess my notes are unstructured, as in they’re what I type as I’m in the meeting. I’m a “more is better” sort of note taker, so it’s definitely faster to let AI pull things out.

Infosec … I guess people will have to evaluate that for themselves. Certainly, for my use case there’s no concern.

I use it to review my meeting notes.

• “Based on the following daily notes, what should I follow-up on in my next meeting with #SomeTeamTag?”
• “Based on the following daily notes, what has the #SomeTeamTag accomplished the past month?”
• etc.

I’m not counting on it to not miss anything, but it jogs my memory, it does often pull out things I completely forgot about, and it lets me get away with being super lazy. Whoops, 5 minutes before a meeting I forgot about? Suddenly I can follow up on things that were talked about last meeting. Or, for sprint retrospectives, give feedback that is accurate.

To add: I’ve also started using AI to “talk to podcast guests.” You can use Whisper to transcribe a podcast, then give the transcript to AI to ask questions. I find the Modern Wisdom Podcast is great for this.

(I say this naive of all sorts of things, but…) I wish Canada would do something bold and actively court all these high-skill people who are probably interested in jumping ship. Make it easier for whole companies to move and bring their employees, make it easy for entrepreneurs to start a business serving this new migration, relax some tax rules for those in the process of moving, make it easy for extended family to tag along, make it clear it’ll be easy for them to go back… ehh, and do something about housing.

Then, take out billboards in big cities. Put on events in the US. Partner with Canadian companies to handle logistics for potential employees, etc., etc.

Don’t just go “Hey smart people, come to Canada” and afterwards say “I bet they’ll do smart-people things!” Go for an unprecedented scale migration and actually shape the process for long-term benefit and payoff.

In the past I figured we didn’t do this because we didn’t want to piss off people in the US, but, I feel like who gives a shit now.