Practice 2 · Map your work to the categories7 minutes

For each of the five categories, do two things in your Shortlist template.

  • Mark whether AI in this category currently helps your work, hurts it, is invisible to you (you are not using it), or is intentionally not used (you have decided it does not apply).
  • For the categories where it helps, write one sentence on the specific kind of work AI is doing or could do for you.

Most practitioners find they actively use two or three categories, are passively touched by one or two more, and do not use the rest. That is the pattern. The mapping makes it visible and tells you where your shortlist needs to focus.