When you can't remember how you did something last quarter, that's your sign to automate it. The speaker uses the "How did I do this?" test to catch tasks worth formalizing, then asks whether AI or a hybrid workflow can handle it instead of rebuilding from scratch each time.
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over and over again. One of the lessons I learned early on in my business, I remember there was a task I had to do. I can't remember what the task was, but I remember the event. I had this task and it had to be done quarterly. And I remember I sat down, I did it, and I finished, figured it out how to do it, and it was awesome. And then the next quarter came and I went, ah, darn it, I've done this before. How did I do it? The minute you ask yourself, how did I do it last time? That's when you start to think about what, this is now a process. This is now something I need to build around. Again, if it's something where that human brain needs to make decisions, it's probably not something to automate. However, now with automation, I look at that question a little differently. I used to say, oh, when I say, how did I do that last time? I need to write a process for that. However, now I say, oh, is that something that can be done automagically using AI? Or is it something that I can maybe hybrid between having part of it done by by, you know, an AI or something and maybe using some human interaction as well. So, but it does allow you to have that continuous automation or adaptation because you can just change the bits and pieces of it as opposed to having to redo the whole thing from scratch every single time.
