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.
How I Turned 3 Months of Work Into 2 Days: AI Prompting for High-Leverage Productivity
Ever stared down a massive project so intimidating that you put it off until it became an emergency? Yeah, I’ve been there. Recently, I had to design and document strategic systems, SOPs, and org-wide roles—including for positions that didn’t even exist yet—for an entire company. The...
How to Thrive (Not Just Survive) in an AI-Driven World: Navigating Burnout, Overwhelm, and the Future of Work
In this article, we share strategies for embracing the AI revolution and overcoming the challenges it presents.
Burnout, Overwork, and the New Leadership Model: How to Design a Life (and Career) You Don’t Need to Escape From
More people than ever are rethinking what work should feel like—walking away from burnout, questioning the point of relentless productivity, and quietly wondering if there’s a better way to live. Moodle reports 66% of employees have experienced some degree of burnout while working their current job. And APA’...
The HALT Method: Work-Life Balance for Busy Professionals and Working Parents
Your productivity crisis isn't a time management problem. It's an energy management emergency. I discovered this truth the hard way—after burning out for the third time in late 2022. On paper, everything looked successful. My calendar was meticulously organized. My business was growing. I was...
AI and Authentic Leadership: Why Thoughtless Content Fails
If you're worried that using AI to help you write will make your content sound inauthentic, you're not alone. In the last year, criticism of AI-generated writing has exploded—especially in leadership and content marketing circles. The telltale signs, they say, are everywhere: * too many em...
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...