Team Dynamics
What if we held AI upside down?
A reversal of perspective: what if AI is not a tool to master, but a mirror that reveals our cognitive blind spots?
A useful provocation. Most teams approach AI as a new Swiss army knife - what can I do with it? This article proposes the inversion: what does AI allow me to see about myself that I could not see before?
The tool as mirror
When a colleague writes a poor prompt and receives a mediocre answer, the reflex is to blame the tool. That is a diagnostic error. The AI output reflects, with unsettling precision, the clarity of the intention going in. A team that learns to use AI is, in reality, learning to formulate what it wants.
[Migration in progress - full article body to be brought across from the original Notion source.]
Three reversals to try this week
- Instead of asking “Can AI do X?”, ask “What does it say about my process that I want to delegate X?”
- Instead of evaluating the quality of the answer, evaluate the quality of the question.
- Instead of looking for the ideal tool, look for the friction the tool brings to light.
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