Worked example

Priya’s Audit, Step by Step

Priya is sixteen and choosing her A-levels. This short film, about three and a half minutes long, shows what she entered at each step of the free Audit, how the Audit responded, and the page it built for her. She is one of the two worked examples in Chapter 6 of the book.

About three and a half minutes, with no sound. The captions in the film explain each step, and everything Priya entered is also written out below.
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What Priya Entered, Step by Step

  1. Your Stage

    At school. The stage changes the examples and the advice, not the method.

  2. Your Tasks

    Priya lists what she actually does in a normal week, with rough hours for each: 31 hours in all.

    TaskHours a weekRoom todayNote
    Revising from notes51. Hand It OverRoom 1
    History essays31. Hand It OverRoom 1
    Maths problem sets31. Hand It OverRoom 1
    Saturday job at a caféCore83. Hold ItRoom 3Core
    Running the climate societyCore43. Hold ItRoom 3Core
    Editing videos for a friend21. Hand It OverRoom 1
    Babysitting33. Hold ItRoom 3
    Learning piano33. Hold ItRoom 3

  3. The Rooms

    Each task gets two questions. Can AI do it well today? Does the world insist a person owns it? Her revision, essays, problem sets and video editing land in Room 1, Hand It Over. Her Saturday job, the climate society, babysitting and piano land in Room 3, Hold It, because AI cannot do them well yet and people want a person. She expects none of them to change room in the next three years.

  4. Your Core

    The work people most value her for: Her Saturday job at a café, and running the climate society.

  5. Your Edges

    A score from 1 to 5 on each of the four edges that stay valuable as the tools improve.

    • Judgement: 2 of 5
    • Taste: 2 of 5
    • Trust: 4 of 5
    • Reach: 3 of 5

  6. Your Direction

    Deciding what people act on, not only getting them to act. Two tasks in that work: Choosing which campaigns to run (Room 2) and starting something new in her town (Room 4).

  7. Your Page

    • Room 1 work takes 13 of her 31 hours a week, or 42 per cent, across four of her eight tasks.
    • But the work people value her for is in Room 3, and her edge score is 11 of 20.
    • She chooses Judgement as the edge to build next. In her words: “I organise people well, and the next step is deciding what they should do, not just getting them to do it.”
    • Her first Shift: Run one project this term where I choose the goal. The society picks one campaign and I make the call.

See the other worked example: Dan, early in his career.