I'm a recovering academic who uses her insights from behavioural economics to develop methods that facilitate collaboration. In my weekly newsletter, I share the summary of my latest interview on the "workshops work" podcast along with an application of facilitation as a life and leadership skill.
Discover A More Human AI Approach || 🎤 The Lie of Not Enough on Episode 6 with Mark McCartney
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Hi Reader, Most people use AI to write faster, I ended up using it to slow down 😅 Recently, many emails sound similar — same structure, same words. I find myself skimming through sentences, filling in the gaps. Basically not reading properly. Luckily, for my book-writing process, I had started to work with AI in a peculiar way: asking it for its tough love when reviewing my content — instead of writing it for me. Applying this collaboration to emails, I learned that I was misreading them, projecting assumptions, missing what people were actually saying. I also have a tendency to bury important messages below layers of courtesy instead of getting to the point. Proper tough love! While this way of working with AI is costing me more time, it has surely saved several relationships already! It slowed me down and invited me to re-read emails that I had read through my blurred perspective. Instead of sending an email with a counter-argument, I ended up thanking the sender and agreeing with their suggestions.... How can you use AI in a way that it makes you more human, not less? 🎤 Waiting for you on the Unprofessionalism podcast:Mark McCartney left a 15-year career in finance, traveled Peru for a year, and started asking everyone he met: what is a good life? His answer is disarmingly simple — pay attention to what fills you up. And be yourself. That's it. We got into boundaries as an act of compassion, why agreement is overrated, the grief we never process at work, and why real vulnerability isn't your rehearsed trauma story — it's the subtle, unremarkable thing you say in the moment that reminds everyone they're sitting with a human being. If you're looking for more inner coherence between who you are and who you perform to be, this one's a gift. 🎧 Click here to listen to the interview📥 Download my 1-page summary🎧 The workshops work Podcast ClubThe workshops work podcast has retired but the archive remains open! Join our monthly gatherings around varying themes! February 26th, we will gather around the theme of Group Dynamics Click here to find out more and sign up for free. That's it from my side. I hope you enjoy my conversation with Mark and find inspiration to become a bit more unprofessional yourself. I wish you patience to write more human emails with the help of AI. Hope to see you next week! Myriam
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How can we facilitate collaboration?
I'm a recovering academic who uses her insights from behavioural economics to develop methods that facilitate collaboration. In my weekly newsletter, I share the summary of my latest interview on the "workshops work" podcast along with an application of facilitation as a life and leadership skill.
Hi Reader, I'm just returning from a retreat with Paula Short, who has been on the workshops work podcast. A facilitator I deeply respect. By the end of day two, a sudden insight made me almost laugh out loud. I am actually here. In the past — at workshops, retreats, anything that overlapped with my professional world — I would have had my facilitator hat glued on. I'd be observing the design, taking notes on the process, reading the room at the meta level. From a safe distance, carefully...
Hi Reader, Do you speak to yourself as you speak to your best friend? I often don't. I noticed how I would get upset with myself when I don't perform as I want to, when tasks take longer or when I don't show up as the person I want to be. I call myself names that I wouldn't use for my friend. You might recognise it: pondering over something we said, an email we maybe shouldn't have sent, a moment we keep replaying. Voices debating in our heads. It's no news. But this week, I am trying...
Hi Reader, I was supposed to be back in Amsterdam a week ago. Our flight was cancelled due to the war; then, rerouting via the US, we were refused boarding: apparently you need a visa to transit. One of the most expensive lessons I've learned. If I had been told I could extend my time in sunny Australia by a week, I might have been happy to arrange more "last times": one more beach, more friends, more gelato. But once my trip was extended by circumstances I didn't choose, it became difficult...