There was one person I just wasn't clicking with, and I couldn't say why. So I did something a little embarrassing: I had AI build a communication profile of me, then one of them, then compared the two side by side. What came back wasn't dramatic. It was just true, and I hadn't sat with it before. Includes the exact prompt I use to build a stakeholder profile from meeting transcripts.

I'd made fifteen AI use case videos with no script format, just whatever felt right that day. I transcribed all of them, fed them to NotebookLM, and asked if there was a pattern I couldn't see. There was. Six parts, and I'd been using them the whole time without knowing it.

I sat down to update my resume thinking I knew what I'd accomplished. Months of daily journal entries told me otherwise — not by surfacing things I'd forgotten, but by showing me things I was actively doing that I'd never thought to claim. Turns out the gap between what you do and what you say you do is wider than you think. And it has nothing to do with memory.