If You Can Send a Voice Note, You Can Use AI
Adam Watkins of AI for Ghana on the first wall most people hit with AI — and why it is not understanding the tool, but typing at it.
By Adam Watkins, AI for Ghana
I sent somebody questions about their business. Written out, many of them, so I could truly understand what their goals were. Three days went by. Nothing. I assumed I had lost them.
Then one night at nine o'clock, six voice notes came in. Back to back. Ten minutes in total. Every single question answered — properly, in detail, with things I would never have got in writing.
They had not gone quiet. They were never going to sit and type sixteen answers with one thumb at the end of a twelve-hour day.
That is not their problem. That is the keyboard's problem.
AI is hard in plenty of ways, and anybody who tells you otherwise is selling something. But for a lot of people, the first wall is not understanding it. It is typing at it. And there is a free button already sitting on your phone that removes that wall — one most people have never pressed.
This is Ghana Cheat Codes, Episode 3.
Open the AI app on your phone. Press the microphone on your keyboard. Describe your business out loud for sixty seconds: what you sell, who buys it, and the one thing that is not working. Don't shorten it. Don't tidy it up. Don't start again because you stumbled. Send it — then read what comes back.
The keyboard microphone is free. It is built into your phone. It works inside any app, and it never runs out. If you can send a voice note, you can use AI.