I automated my job (and it made me a better leader)
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A senior director at GitHub shares how she built 40 automations using the GitHub Copilot desktop app to manage the invisible overhead of senior leadership. Automations connect to her calendar, email, Slack, and GitHub repos via MCP integrations to handle meeting prep, daily triage, launch tracking, stale PR detection, and career journaling. She frames automations as an accessibility tool for AuDHD, narrowing the gap between good and bad executive-function days. The post includes a real example prompt (Stale Work Finder) and practical advice on starting with one high-friction task and iterating from there.
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What automations actually areWhat this looks likeWhat my automations look likeThe AuDHD partHow to start (for real)The bigger pictureTags:Written by100.6K Impressions7 Comments