In the spirit of Light Actions, I recently built three AI tools.
Daily reflection tracker: Every evening, I enter three wins for the day and three priorities for the next. They're logged in a running file. Unlike a journal, it synthesizes.
Wow moment: When I asked for insights from the past 10 days, Claude said this: You celebrate wins when they land with someone else, but the work you do purely for yourself quietly gets done without recognition of its value.
And it even gave me a light action! In your next reflection, name one win that had no audience — something you did entirely for you.
Daily email + calendar scan: This runs automatically every morning and tells me what's urgent and what I should keep back of mind, and flags any upcoming issues.
Wow moment: Without being asked, it looked a week ahead, noted April 15th as a heavy day, and told me to get my taxes sorted before it arrived.
Daily AI brief: This agent scans newsletters plus the web to tell me what I need to know. It allows me to save articles and add ones I come across throughout the day.
The "wow" part of yesterday's AI daily brief
Wow moment: Unbidden, it started adding a "Client Relevance" section at the bottom, with good tidbits to share with clients and ideas for positioning my company. I've been thinking this might be fodder for its own weekly client recap, for those who want to be informed but don't need to know every geeky thing about what models were released this week. Is that you? Reply and let me know.
Want to build your own Light Actions in AI? Shoot me an email and we'll find time to build something.
You may notice this newsletter has been leaning into AI lately. That's deliberate.
The Light Actions frame is still doing the driving, AI is the application.
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Thoughtful insights, easy experiments and smart light actions delivered (most) Fridays. I’m Amy Bonsall—ambiguity architect. I help leaders lead better through uncertainty. I’m a former IDEO and Old Navy exec, Harvard Business Review author, and secret-back-pocket resource for leaders wanting to feel more confident in ambiguity.
