Ichidan Ue

Your AI Communication Style

It reads well and it is still wrong. The gap is not the AI. It is how you asked.

I am Paul Gerber. I work with people and teams in Tokyo on getting more out of the AI they already use.

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Your reading

Two routes to the same three scores.

Quick. Nine questions about one task you just did.

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This is my thought process, running in the open. Tell me where it gets you wrong.

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The three dials

Three things are always going on. Neither pole is better.

What to do

Fourteen moves, two at a time, by how much the work matters.

Get it down

Capture the gist. Nothing more from you.

Get it right

Comprehensive and technical. You answer its questions.

Get it ready

Laid out for people. You read it.

What sets the level?

The levels stack. Get it right adds to get it down, and get it ready adds again.

So you never decide what to drop. You only decide how far up to go. Three moves, then nine, then all fourteen.

Two exceptions. Word cap and Escalation belong to get it down, because get it right wants the questions and detail they hold back.

Get it downGet it rightGet it ready
AudienceWho reads it, and how closely.
No one but you.
You or others wanting ideas, not details.Meeting recaps, first drafts, rough plans.
People who will read every line.Supervisors, customers, teachers.
LifespanHow often you will reuse it.
Rarely used again, if ever. No telling when.
You will use it again, multiple times.
You will use it again soon, several times.
StakesWhat being wrong costs you.
Errors cost you time, nothing major.
Errors send someone down the wrong path.
Even minuscule errors could have major disruptive effects.

Each test asks how far the work travels past the moment you made it. Any one of them can raise the level on its own.

The map

Where people and companies land

Scored on their own public stance. Tap a point for the case.

Tap a point to see who they are and why they land there.

Reading it. Each person and company is scored on their own, against fixed poles.

Why it pays

Not charity. Fulfilled people are more productive and stay longer.

+13%
more productive when happier. Causal, in a real workplace.
Bellet, De Neve & Ward · Management Science 2024
+18%
productivity and +23% profit for engaged teams; up to 43% lower turnover.
Gallup Q12 · 2.7M+ employees
~20%
the happiest firms’ edge over the S&P 500; well-being tracks profit and ROA.
Oxford Wellbeing · 15M+ surveys
What the person gets
  • Get more capable. Your best work gets easier to repeat.
  • Get rid of the work you hate. Quality is never good on work you hate. Hand it off.
  • Do more of what you are good at. Start using it yourself, then bring it to your team.
  • A neutral system you can be honest with. It is here to help you, and that helps the company.