Day 1: Open a tool and calibrate it

The one idea

Your first conversation with an AI assistant should be about something you already know well. Not because it is easy — because it calibrates you. When you ask about your own field, you can see immediately what the tool does brilliantly (fluent, fast, organised) and where it wobbles (specifics, numbers, recent events).

Compare:

First question ever: "Will AI take my job?" — an anxious question you cannot check the answer to.

versus

"Explain [something from your daily work — stock rotation, trial balances, boarding procedures] as if to a new colleague." — you are the world expert on checking this one.

How to run it

Open any major assistant — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Copilot; the free tier of any is fine for this week. Ask it to explain the thing you know best. Read the answer twice: once noticing how competent it sounds, once hunting for what is slightly off. Both observations are the lesson. Then ask a follow-up — "now explain it to a customer" — and notice it remembers the conversation.

Try it now

Do exactly that, now: one topic you could teach, one request to explain it, one follow-up changing the audience. Write down one thing it got impressively right and one thing you would correct.

Your win today

You have used an AI assistant, and you know its texture first-hand: fluent and fast, imperfect on specifics — which is exactly why your expertise stays in the loop.