# AI Summer School #3: Talk, Don't Type

One of the simplest ways to get more from AI: stop typing and start talking.

Next time your head is full to the brim and the screen feels like too much, try this. Talk, don't type.

It's one of my favourite ways to use AI, and I do it constantly. Open the little microphone in the chat box and just talk. Ramble out the messy version of whatever is in your head: the email, the strategy note, the holiday list, the half-formed idea.

I do it whilst walking, in the car, wherever I happen to be. Also before I start my day.

If your AI genuinely knows you and your work (see: naked AI, lesson two), what comes back is not a blank page. It's a decent first draft you can start shaping straight away.

That gap, between AI that treats you like a stranger and AI that actually knows you, is the thing we are obsessed with fixing at the moment; it's what we're building at Atheni.

Give the walking and talking a go this week and tell me how you get on.

Atheni Strategy Ltd, London. Contact: hello@atheni.ai.