I loved this session, and I feel compelled to share a surprising creative experience I had earlier this week. It involves writing with AI, so look away now if that makes you wanna 
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I’m writing a new book about delivering Agile software development projects on time. It’s going to be a very, very short book, a mix of story and lessons, and it’s going to be in a similar style to my last book, The Bottleneck Detective, with includes my bottleneck management framework FOCCCUS.
I’m an expert in this topic, and most of the work I’m doing for the book is simplifying things so much that it the book is useful, but also easy to absorb. I’ve had a lot of chats with ChatGPT and Claude, and in some of them I’ve uploaded my previous books.
Here’s the surprising bit: at one stage I asked ChatGPT to summarise all that we’d discussed and it used my FOCCCUS formula to describe how to deliver Agile projects on time. WHICH WAS WRONG. Or so I thought. The focccus formula wasn’t designed to solve that problem. And yet … ChatGPT did a pretty good job of modifying it so that it would work with project management. I was annoyed at first, but I’ve been thinking about it for hours and hours, wondering why I never thought to do that.
I’m not sharing this to try to convert anyone to using AI.
I am sharing it because when I uploaded my previous books to chatGPT, it created a mini 2nd brain, and then it made connections between the problem I was working on and the existing IP and invented something that is really %$#$ clever.
Much like how Mike described using his obsidian 2nd brain to make connections and spark creativity. Yay!