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Cris Valerio

Journalist

Aug 7, 2026

16:17
We both love AI, but also like what is something you can do to make the workflow feel like you, not random? Like what are some best practices that you're seeing?
16:27
I think I'm going to answer from a framework perspective, and then we get down to a specific example.
16:32
AI is a tool, and that tool is changing rapidly and doing incredible things.
16:39
However, it doesn't change fundamentals to business practices and stuff that has been studied forever.
16:45
As an example, there's a body of study called Operational Research, OR.
16:49
And one of the things that OR has consistently shown is when you just bring a tool into one part of a full workflow, it actually makes that workflow more onerous.
17:00
It creates more problems, et cetera, right? Whereas if you come and you apply the tool to the entire workflow, you actually get more benefit.
19:20
I'm curious for our listeners, we talked a lot about like do's and don'ts and like best practices, but if they want to just like play around with AI this week, sort of as you describe, what's something fun that you've been doing or like an experiment that would be fun for them to do? I mean, I have so

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