The Briefing Skill That Builds Itself Around You
I ended the pre-call brief post with a section called “the setup”: a four-step recipe for building the same thing yourself. A call-prep skill, a scheduled task, a Notion database, a way to get the brief in front of you at join time. Here’s the shape, off you go.
That’s the bit people wrote to me about. And the honest answer is that the recipe isn’t enough, because every post I’ve written about this (that one, and the morning briefing one before it) describes my setup. My Gmail. My Outlook for Mac. My Teams. A Notion database fed by a Mac app I built. “Here’s the shape, go build it” really means “copy my skill and rewrite half of it for your stack.” Which is a rubbish answer to give someone.
