I advice people that people skills are important in the AI era.

Now, I’m using AI to help me with people skills.

This morning, I wrote a script export my WhatsApp conversations this year. That makes it easy to feed it into AI models.

Then I used my Local MCP connector and asked Claude:

Who are people in my life that most deserve an unreasonable gesture of thanks and what would that be?

It went through my WhatsApp messages – including threads I had not read. Including a group discussing four 90-minute hands-on AI workshops I’m running for IIM alumni in Singapore on Saturday afternoons:

  1. 23 May: Context engineering
  2. 20 Jun: AI tools & workflows
  3. 25 Jul: Agentic analysis
  4. 22 Aug: AI strategy

Nayana Jain prepared a series of LinkedIn / WhatsApp posts to promote this workshop series and also created a poster for the workshops - and the best part of it was they were AI-generated. AI didn’t do a great job at the logo, so she asked for and got the IIMPACT logo (which isn’t public) and fed it to the model to re-generate it.

All of this is something I wasn’t even aware of until Claude pointed it out.

I sent a note thanking her.

This was today’s gesture. With AI’s help.