Professional Productivity

Using AI for executive assistance, project management, tax preparation, meeting transcription, and daily workflows.

Summaries

Executive & Project Management

• AI Executive Assistant — Modular EA system: inbox triage, briefings, goals
• Project Management — Four-layer system: folders, transcription, reviews, proposals
• Claude as Project Manager — Ipeirotis on GitHub + Claude Code for agentic project management

Tax & Finance

• Academic Tax Basics — Tax complexity unique to academics
• Tax Season with Claude Code — AI skills for tax document collection and compilation
• When to Get Help — Tax professional escalation framework

Communication & Input

• Meeting Transcription — Granola and alternatives for institutional memory
• Voice Dictation — Wispr Flow for 2-3x speed gains

Planning & Cost

• Stress-Test Any Plan — Fresh-chat adversarial review to counter sycophancy
• The Cost Reality — Full stack ~$140/month, minimum viable at $20/month

Worked Examples

• Example: Noise Canceling — Email digest skill with calibration
• Example: Project Dashboard — Synthetic RCT dashboard with meeting summaries
• Example: Research Design — Living research design document