By now, I have an agent with character that sits in the root of my Obsidian vault and helps me with a ton of stuff.
Ziggy Ragdoll knows I somehow got hoodwinked into being Head Coach of my son’s t-ball team. I signed up Assistant Coach. They told me they just needed a placeholder for Head in the TeamSnap system. Next thing I know, I’m doing batting orders.
The Side Quest story is part of a recurring theme where AI handles the behind-the-scenes. I jammed in the Vault to create a system that generates batting and fielding orders that give all kids equal time at all the positions over a span of 3 games, making sure everyone gets one of the treasured ones each game (Pitcher and 1B, obviously).
Ziggy edits a Google Sheet in near-real-time when we have no-shows (which are always last minute for some reason), and my fellow coaches and parents can view along.
The outcome is that when I’m on field, I get to go full Ted Lasso and focus on the kids.
So What’s the ROI?
Probably saves 15 minutes a game doing a lineup. I jammed with it for a bit to set up the agent so the up-front investment evened out mid-season.
But is the ROI time? Or quality of outcome, which I’m not sure I can quantify?
Either someone else would have done all the setup, or we would have had a less equitable (and hopefully fun) outcome.
Full Ted Lasso. That’s the ROI.