Breaking Down Your Expertise: The Missing Link in AI Transformation
Most people approach AI backwards. They try to automate what they do without understanding how they do it. But here's what I've learned after spending 500+ hours studying the Industrial Revolution and applying those principles to knowledge work: the real breakthrough comes from extracting and systematizing your expertise first.
In this session, I walked our community through the fundamental challenge every expert faces—the "curse of knowledge." We know how to do what we do, but we can't easily explain or replicate it. This makes it nearly impossible to create effective AI workflows. The solution? Borrowing time-tested methods from industrial pioneers who transformed entire industries by breaking down complex work into its component parts.
I shared my own 3-year journey of deconstructing my thought leadership process, the mistakes I made, and the breakthrough insights that emerged. More importantly, we explored how each o…
