u/kairocoach

I’ve been running Cowork with separate projects for engineering, creative, etc., coordinated by a Chief of Staff project, and ran into an interesting problem: one project seems to have lost enough shared context that it now questions/rejects instructions from the Chief unless I explicitly say they came from me. Even when told to independently verify against the working model and Asana decisions, it found a small contradiction and fixated on that as evidence the Chief wasn’t acting in good faith. Has anyone else experienced this? I’d also love to hear better practices for keeping project memory separated while still reconciling context in real time, especially when projects have dependencies where one needs to start immediately after another finishes and waiting for the next scheduled Asana check-in isn’t really workable.

Recently my company gave me Claude Cowork. I’ve been using ChatGPT for a while and it was helpful, but honestly I was using it like a search engine on steroids.

Now that I’m using Claude for real work, I’m realizing it’s less about getting AI to do tasks and more about learning how to lead it. It’s like having a really high-performing employee who knows almost everything about the job but has never worked for your company before. The more I say, “Here’s the situation…here are the tradeoffs…help me think through this,” instead of just asking it to do something, the better it gets.

Completely changing my thought process on how I’ll train my teams to use it when they get access.