Draft mode — just for you, Kirsten. This essay doesn’t exist yet, and you don’t have to write it — just talk it. Open Granola (or a Claude voice chat, or Voice Memos), read the thought starters below, and answer them out loud like you’re telling a friend over dinner. Twenty minutes of “rambling” is perfect — stories beat summaries, specifics beat theory. Send over the transcript and we’ll shape it into the essay together.
Thought starters
- You worked inside an AI-native operations company and helped build its capability. What did you actually learn there — get technical, it’s a good thing.
- How has your producer reflex changed now that you have real AI fluency? What do you reach for first that didn’t exist two years ago?
- Tell us about Glizzy, your chief-of-staff agent — what does it do, how did you build it, and what surprised you about working with it?
- What does it mean to manage non-human collaborators? How is delegating to an agent like — and unlike — delegating to a person?
- You watched Airtable upskill on AI in a matter of months and helped lead that transition in operations. How did that actually happen — what worked, what flopped?
- Which parts of creative operations should be agentic already, and which parts stay stubbornly human?
- What would you tell a producer who’s scared this makes them obsolete?