When ChatGPT was released, I was one of the first people I knew to start experimenting with it. Curiosity was enough. Since then, AI has become part of my everyday work. I use ChatGPT and Claude daily to write, think, research, solve problems, and build.
What surprised me wasn’t how quickly the tools improved. It was what happened to the questions I was asking.
Every experiment led to another. Every new capability raised a bigger question—not just about AI itself, but about the world of human work. What does expertise look like when knowledge is instantly accessible? Which skills become more valuable? How do we build meaningful careers when the way we work is changing so quickly?
Those questions are why this journal exists.
The Conversation I Couldn’t Find
Over the past couple of years, I’ve consumed more AI-related content than I can count. Newsletters. Podcasts. YouTube videos. Product launches. Prompt libraries. Threads explaining why one model is better than another.
I’ve learned a lot from all of them.
But eventually I realised I was looking for a different kind of conversation.
Most of what I found focused on the technology: what changed, what launched, what became possible. Those conversations matter because they help us keep up with a field that seems to reinvent itself every week (or day!)
Yet every time I closed another article or another video, I found myself thinking about something else entirely.
Not What can this model do?
But What does this mean for us?
What does it mean for someone who has spent years building expertise in writing, design, marketing, software, education, consulting, or leadership? What happens when the tasks we’ve mastered become easier, faster, or partially automated? What skills become more important, and which ones quietly fade into the background?
Those questions felt bigger than any product announcement.
They felt personal, and that changed everything.
AI Changed More Than My Workflow
Like many professionals, I initially saw AI as a productivity tool.
Something that could help me write faster.
Summarise documents.
Generate ideas.
Improve drafts.
It certainly does all of those things, but somewhere along the way, I realised the real transformation wasn’t happening on my screen.
It was happening in the way I thought about my work.
Every new capability forced me to re-evaluate something I’d taken for granted. What clients actually value. What expertise looks like when information is abundant. Whether experience becomes less important—or perhaps more important—in a world where anyone can generate a competent first draft in seconds.
I still don’t have definitive answers. In fact, the opposite has happened.
The more I learn about AI, the more questions I seem to have.
One thing that’s worth mentioning is that I didn’t come into this world as an engineer or a developer. My background is in marketing, communications, and writing. I don’t build foundation models, and I can’t explain every technical breakthrough happening behind the scenes.
Yet over the past couple of years, curiosity has gradually turned me from a user into a builder. I now spend part of my days creating AI assistants and workflows with Claude and ChatGPT that solve real problems, all because the tools made building accessible in ways I hadn’t imagined.
That’s the perspective I bring to this journal: someone exploring what becomes possible when curious professionals begin building with AI, and what that shift means for the future of work.
And I’ve come to think that’s a good sign, because curiosity has always been one of the most valuable professional skills we have.
Why I Started This Journal
This publication probably won’t help you become an AI expert, even if from time to time I’ll be sharing my own AI experiments, and my experience in the process.
This journal explores what it means to navigate work while AI reshapes it in real time.
I don’t expect every reader to use the same tools I do. Some of you may rely on ChatGPT every day. Others might be experimenting with Claude, Gemini, Copilot, or tools that haven’t even been released yet.
The tools will change, that’s for sure.
The questions won’t.
How do we continue learning without feeling permanently behind?
How do we stay valuable when knowledge is increasingly available to everyone?
How do we build trust when AI can produce content in seconds?
How do we balance efficiency with originality?
How do we protect space for deep thinking when speed is becoming the default?
Those are the conversations I want this publication to explore because I suspect many of us are asking the same questions in different ways.
A Journal, Not a Playbook
The name The AI Work Journal was intentional.
A journal isn’t a manual because it’s not here to pretend to have everything figured out.
It’s a record of observations, experiments, successes, mistakes, conversations, and ideas that evolve over time.
That’s exactly what I want this publication to become.
Some essays will explore how AI is reshaping work and professional identity.
Some will document experiments I’m running with new tools and workflows.
Others will reflect on creativity, careers, writing, leadership, and the skills that may become even more valuable as AI becomes increasingly capable.
If there’s a common thread, it’s this:
I’m interested in exploring what AI reveals about the way we work.
Technology is changing quickly but the more interesting story is how people respond to that change.
How they adapt.
How they resist.
How they reinvent themselves.
And perhaps most importantly, how they find meaning in their work when the rules are being rewritten in real time.
An Invitation
I don’t know exactly where AI will take us over the next five or ten years.
Anyone who says they do is probably more confident than they should be.
What I do know is that we’re living through one of the most significant shifts in modern professional life, so I’d rather explore it more with curiosity than certainty.
That’s what you’ll find here.
If you’re navigating this new world too—whether you’re excited, overwhelmed, skeptical, optimistic, or simply curious—I hope you’ll find something that resonates.
Welcome to The AI Work Journal.
I think we’re going to have some conversations worth having in a world that’s changing at a pace it’s hard to keep up with.