Supercharge Your Productivity with AI: Unlock Success Through a Tailored, Goal-Aligned Strategy
Discover how a tailored, goal-oriented AI strategy can unlock sky-high productivity and accelerate your mission-driven success.
I'm Marissa Brassfield, your guide to thriving with AI. 🙋🏽‍♀️ I help non-technical leaders work smarter, save time, and develop future-ready teams. Let's build a better world together.
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Design a Joyful Morning Routine With Your Family (With AI)
It’s easy to let mornings become a frenzied rush of managing logistics and getting everyone out the door to school or work on time. But what if you took a step back and co-designed a morning routine to optimize joy, ease and alignment?
The Future of AI in Time Management: How Artificial Intelligence Can Optimize Your Schedule and Maximize Your Productivity
In this article, we'll explore how AI is shaping the future of time management and how you can make the most of it.
Embracing AI Without Losing Your Humanity: Navigating the Non-Technical Aspects of AI Implementation
Essential themes to explore as you craft your personal and business AI strategy. Leverage the potential of AI without compromising your humanity.
Creative Intelligence: Deepfakes, Vishing, and the Future of Fraud
I share the earliest signals of a world where ubiquitous deepfakes make it nearly impossible to trust what we see online at face value.
My AI Workflow: Using ChatGPT and Jounce to Create Engaging Blogs
Learn to write blogs with AI tools in 6 steps. Create engaging and informative posts with this step-by-step guide.
The Psychological Impact of Personalizing AI, and How to Treat Machines Working For You
Most of us have only worked with other humans. How do you manage the personal relationship you have with your AI system(s) of choice?
Pro Tips to Improve Your AI Summarization
This article will show you how to get better results from AI summarization tools by personalizing your prompt.
How to Price Your AI-Assisted Writing Work
In this blog post, we'll explore how to price your freelance writing work when using AI to write.
Gartner's Hype Cycle Applied to Conversational Artificial Intelligence - And What This Means for the Future of Work
In this blog post, we will take a look at how Gartner's hype cycle applies to conversational artificial intelligence (AI).
Creative Intelligence #3: Side Effects of Partnering with AI
I share the AI signals I'm tracking this week, and tactical, practical steps to mitigate some of the "side effects" of partnering with AI.
Big Tech on AI: Earnings Call Summaries from Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft
Here are the AI-centric highlights from this week's earnings calls from Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft – summarized by AI, contextualized by me.
Introducing Creative Intelligence
Creative Intelligence is a new offering from Ridiculously Efficient that features the latest emerging business models using AI, time-saving use cases, reviews, and more.
Using Creative AI & ChatGPT in Content Marketing
In 2023, I'm testing artificial intelligence in my content marketing, including creative AI interfaces and natural language processing tools.
Protecting Time to Think
You need dedicated time set aside to think about your work—and that means removing yourself from distractions as much as possible.
Reinventing Your Leadership Path: Outgrowing the Role You Once Loved
There’s a quiet revolution happening among senior tech leaders—and if you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you feel it too. Through my work coaching engineering executives and future-forward product thinkers (especially through CTOx, our accelerator for tech leaders pivoting to Fractional CTO business models), I...
How to Redesign Your Day With the Productivity Wheel: A Human-Centered Approach to Time, Energy & Fulfillment
If you're a high-performing leader, entrepreneur, or parent trying to "do it all," time can feel like your most scarce resource. 🙋🏽‍♀️But here’s the truth: it's not just about how you spend your time—it's about how your time makes you...
AI isn’t replacing you. It’s freeing you to be more human.
The headlines are everywhere: "The Jobs Most Likely to Be Replaced by AI." If you’ve seen this Forbes article or others like it, you’ve likely felt that jolt—a mix of curiosity and anxiety. What does it mean for your role? Your industry? Your future? These...
4 Questions Every Visionary Leader Should Ask to Build a Connected, High-Performance Team
If you care as much about your team as you do your goals, you need to start asking better questions. Most leaders want to boost productivity, streamline execution, and help their teams thrive—but they often default to asking for more. More output. More hours. More performance. But great leaders...
The AI Prompt Revolution: How to Create Prompts That Actually Work
I watched a founder spend four hours crafting a single AI prompt only to get a generic, lifeless response she could have written herself in 10 minutes. People are approaching AI all wrong. They're treating prompts either with zero creativity and specificity… or, on the opposite end of...
The Employee Engagement Crisis No One Wants to Talk About (And How to Fix It)
I watched a CEO spend $250,000 on a wellness incentive program believing it would fix her company's engagement problem. Three months later, her turnover rate hit 32%. This aligns with current trends—employee engagement in the U.S. fell to its lowest level in a decade in...