What not to paste: data safety at work
The one habit that keeps you safe AI tools are helpful precisely because you feed them real material. That is also the risk. Anything you paste into a consumer AI tool may be stored, processed on servers you do not control, and in some cases used to improve the product. So before you paste, pause […]
When to say it was AI-assisted
Nobody has settled this, so decide your own line There is no established etiquette yet, and the vacuum makes people either over-disclose until it becomes noise, or never mention it and quietly worry. A consistent personal rule is better than either. A workable principle Disclose when the reader would reasonably assume a human did something […]
Keeping the parts that are yours
Some things get worse when you delegate them The productivity framing pushes toward handing over everything that can be handed over. Some tasks are genuinely worth doing slowly, and it is worth naming them before efficiency quietly erodes them. Writing that is thinking Some writing is transmission — a status update, a confirmation, a summary. […]
AI for Everyday Productivity
Practical, safe ways to use AI for email, notes, planning, and meetings — plus the data-safety habit every professional needs.