August 13, 2026 · 1 min read
Becoming Indispensable at a New Job
Starting an administrative job? Here's my recommendation.
- Join an AI notetaker to every meeting, since nobody likes training you on the same thing twice.
- When something is ambiguous, ask directly how you'll know if you did a good job, what good actually looks like.
- In spare moments, work a chatbot for context on the industry and internal processes.
- Spend real time understanding how everything around you works. That's what makes humans valuable and what makes you effective at delegating to AI in the first place.
- Push to get AI connected into every system you touch.
- Have AI review your meeting transcripts, identify action items, and start completing them for you.
- Then keep taking on more.
By the end of your first month, you shouldn't just know how to do your job. You should be finding ways to do parts of everyone else's.
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October 2026 Update: If you have access to ChatGPT Dots or equivalent, aggressively delegate to the agent.