Questions Worth Asking
The questions shaping work, leadership, business, AI, and what comes next. Explore practical answers for people building, leading, reinventing, and figuring out how to use what they already know to create what comes next.
Written and reviewed by Maasha Kah, Founder & CEO, Right Distraction.
15 questions
AI + Work
Using AI well at work, in a small business, and as a leader, without handing over your judgment.
How do I use AI at work?
Use AI at work for the parts of your job that are repetitive, drafty, or research-heavy: first drafts, summaries, meeting notes, options, and rough analysis.
2 min readRead the answer →How can a small business use AI?
A small business gets the most from AI by applying it to the work that eats the owner's time: customer replies, marketing drafts, bookkeeping prep, scheduling, and documentation.
2 min readRead the answer →How do I automate my business with AI?
Automate a business with AI by starting from workflows, not tools. Map the repeated processes, choose one with high volume and clear rules, and rebuild it with AI handling the drafting, sorting, or summarizing while a person handles exceptions and approvals.
2 min readRead the answer →How can leaders use AI?
Leaders use AI best in three layers: personally, to think and prepare faster; with their teams, to expand capacity on real workflows; and organizationally, by setting the norms for data, quality, and transparency.
2 min readRead the answer →Will AI replace my job?
AI is more likely to change your job than to replace it outright, and the change is already happening task by task.
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Business + Consulting
Starting something, packaging what you know, and finding the first people who will pay for it.
How do I start a business?
Start with a problem people already pay to solve, not an idea you love in the abstract.
3 min readRead the answer →How do I start a consulting business?
Consulting starts with a specific problem you have solved before and a specific kind of client who has it now.
3 min readRead the answer →How do I turn my expertise into a business?
Expertise becomes a business when it is pointed at a specific problem, packaged in a format people can buy, and tested with real buyers.
2 min readRead the answer →How do I get my first consulting client?
Your first consulting client almost always comes from someone who has already seen your work.
2 min readRead the answer →How can I make money with AI?
The most reliable way to make money with AI is not to sell AI. It is to use AI to deliver something people already pay for, faster or better, and to help others do the same.
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Leadership
The practices that change what a team experiences, and the culture work that makes them stick.
How do I become a better leader?
Better leadership is built from a few practices done consistently: making expectations clear enough to act on, giving feedback people can actually use, making decisions in a way people can trust, and paying attention to individuals so they feel seen.
3 min readRead the answer →How do I improve company culture?
Company culture is the sum of what gets rewarded, tolerated, and modeled.
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Reinvention + Personal Brand
Changing direction without starting over, and being known for the right thing.
How do I reinvent my career?
Career reinvention works best as a series of small experiments rather than one dramatic leap.
3 min readRead the answer →How do I build a personal brand?
A personal brand is simply what people reliably say about you when you are not in the room.
2 min readRead the answer →How do I turn corporate experience into a consulting career?
Corporate experience becomes a consulting career when you translate what you did inside an organization into a result clients outside it will pay for.
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