The AI Desk Mate
Ryan VoorheesA practical newsletter on how lawyers, consultants, policy people, and other knowledge workers can use AI to save time and improve output without becoming “that guy” in the office.
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The Two-Ask Split
The same request, split in two: the official checklist on the screen, and the real question hiding in the margins.
It is 3:47 p.m., which is the time of day when your brain wants to be done but your inbox wants to be ambitious.
A Slack me...
An AI Desk Mate That's Post-Production, Not Magic
The AI Desk Mate is not replacing your job. It is replacing your first draft, your second draft, and the part of you that still thinks “I will remember this later.”
It usually starts the same way.
I open a tab because I want help. I paste...
Stop Shipping Raw Thoughts
From “uhh… draft” to “yep, ship it” in one AI-assisted pass.
I am staring at an email I have rewritten three times, which means I am now on version six because versioning is a lie we tell ourselves to feel linear.
The subject line says “Q...
The Panic Button Protocol
Turn tribal knowledge into a one-page protocol your team actually follows.
There is a particular kind of stuck:
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Deadline is close
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Brain feels foggy
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Tabs are everywhere
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You have no idea what to do next
You do not nee...
Argue with me, please
Argue with me, please: I brought receipts. The AI brought questions.
It was 12:47 a.m. and I had a paragraph that looked… great.
Short sentences. Clean logic. A confident little cadence. The kind of prose that makes you feel like you just...
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