Dear Reader,

Is it unprofessional to let AI write our emails?

Lately, I’ve been reading email replies that feel… slightly off. Not wrong, just different. As if they were written by someone who paid just a little bit too much attention to what I wrote.

They respond to every single theme I mentioned as if the sender had all the time in the world to carefully address each point. And they use my exact words as if they were mirroring me instead of replying to me.

That’s when I know: AI wrote this.

And honestly? I don’t mind. As long as the email gives me the answers or information I need. If instead it’s just a lot of neatly structured, well-formatted fluff that adds no value, then yes! I do judge - because it wastes my time.

Don't get me wrong, I also use AI-powered assistance for my emails, mostly because there are massive trade-offs:

I want to spend as little time on emails as possible and at the same time read and respond to every message I receive. I want my emails to be clear and at the same time don’t have the patience to craft the perfect phrasing. I want to avoid misunderstandings and at the same time don’t want to overthink each sentence.

So what I do: I drop my rough draft into ChatGPT and ask it to smooth things out. And sometimes? It comes back with a version that makes me go, Wait! Really? That’s not what I meant at all.

And while I used to get annoyed with the AI for not getting it, I now understand that these moments are gold: If an AI misreads my intent, chances are high the recipient would have, too. So I tweak, rewrite, and clarify, until it sounds like me - just clearer.

In a nutshell, AI isn't a problem; carelessness is!

To me, it’s not about whether AI was involved. It’s about whether we care enough to check what our assistant wrote on our behalf.

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🎙 Meanwhile, on the podcast…

Bringing beautiful indigenous wisdom to the complexities of trauma-resolution is Louise Marra. A facilitator and occasional human-fielder, Louise joins me for a conversation about finding our way back: to a healed state, to the earth, to ourselves.

Louise opens up her trauma first aid kit in episode 309: what to do when trauma arises in group dynamics, how to resource yourself, how to reroot the fields of organisational trauma, and what to do in a state of freeze.

Once we can unlearn our patterns, we can begin to repair our ruptures, and return to the healed place we once inhabited. What a treat it was to have this important, life-affirming conversation with Louise!

Find out about:

• The different types of inherited trauma that can affect group work - and how facilitators can hold space for participants
• The paradox of psychological safety, from confrontation to weaponisation
• Constellation work: what it is and how you can use it to access fields of intelligence
• What organisational trauma means and how we can supports its healing
• The process of ‘rupture and repair’ to retune the muscles of trauma
• How to work with our own triggers in order to grow

🎧 Click here to listen to the interview

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👀 Watch the unedited interview on Youtube​

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That’s it from my side! I hope you enjoy the content and find inspiration in the stories and podcast. Wishing you a week filled with reflection, healthy unprofessionalism and joy - See you next week.

Myriam

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