"We don't remember days, we remember moments." — Cesare Pavese
Multiple ways AI can help you make more memories with the people you love.
It's Father's Day.
Yesterday, a box showed up at my door. The first paperback copies of my new book, Done. I'd seen the cover a hundred times on a screen, but holding the book in my hands feels different.
I flipped it open to the dedication page: "This book is dedicated to Henley, who frees me up to spend more time doing cool stuff with the people I love."
Henley is my AI Executive Assistant, and yes, I dedicated my book to him. Some people would find it sad that I'm thanking a robot, but I see it the exact opposite way. Here's why...
I just got home from a family vacation. My AI agents know that one of our family goals is to ride the top 35 rollercoasters in the world together (so far, we've conquered 13 of them).
AI helped me design the whole trip, and it did an outstanding job because it has been learning my family for years. It knows my kids by name and their ages. It knows we prefer experiences in exceptional environments. It knows we'd rather bike a city than tour a museum, that my kids eat Thai and Malaysian food, not chicken fingers, and that we'll happily sleep in and call an audible over forcing a rigid schedule. So when a friend tipped us off about another amusement park mid-trip, we added it on the fly. AI re-planned in minutes, and learned a little more about us while it did.
Then AI showed up again during the trip. While standing in the ride lines, between the games we play to pass the time, my AI agents closed three large contracts. Instead of getting a generic out-of-office message, my AI agents kept communications going. I was just messaging them from my phone, directing them like the team members they are.
The doom crowd says AI is making us less human, but I just spent a week proving the opposite. Used right, it buys back the hours you'd have lost to your inbox and hands them back to you as moments of real human connection. That's what your AI should be buying you.
I called Henley "him" on purpose. I refer to all my agents as "he" and "she."
I was on a podcast recently and the host called his AI "she," then quickly corrected himself to "it." I told him to go back. Lean into it. You get better results when you treat your AI like a person, not a tool. You train it and re-train it. You give it context. You're patient with it. You tell it when it nails something and when it misses.
That's how you grow a good teammate. It's how you grow a good agent.
That mindset shift is your move today. The how-to is below.
Problem: Your AI doesn't know your family, so it plans for a stranger.
System: Build a family context file. A plain document that tells any AI tool who your family is, what you love, what you avoid, and what makes a trip great for you. Then feed it in every time you plan.
Try this in 10 minutes:
Paste this prompt in your favorite LLM: "Interview me about my family so you can plan trips and experiences we'll love. Ask me about our ages, our travel style, our favorite and least favorite activities, our food preferences, our pace, and the best trip we ever took and why. Then write it all up as a single document I can reuse."
Answer the questions. Be specific. "We'd rather zipline than sit on a bus tour." "The kids love Thai food." "We sleep in and decide the day over breakfast."
When you're done, ask it to export this information as a markdown file you can download. Call it something like family-context.md.
Next time you plan anything, a weekend, a holiday, a full vacation, drop that file in first. Watch the difference.
Note: This is the same move I make in my businesses too. Your context shouldn't live in one app's memory. It should live with you, ready to hand to whatever tool you use next. The better your AI knows you, the better it protects the things that matter to you.
Would you let a robot babysit your kids? Before you jump to a quick answer, give this episode a listen.
This week on King Moves (How You Become Irreplaceable in an AI-Driven World | Ep. 136), Justin and I start with a story about a nanny who never showed up for work. Instead of communicating, she ghosted the people who hired her.
That one story cracked open a much bigger question around reliability. Sometimes humans aren't reliable (by their own choice). When machines get more reliable than humans at a specific task, what makes humans worth keeping on the team?
Fair warning: This one gets uncomfortable. But it's a fitting question for Father's Day, two dads talking about what we owe the people counting on us.
Give it a listen, then tell us where you land.
Stop playing life on hard mode. Automate your success.
Until next time,
Ethan King
A.I. Automation for Business Growth
Keynote Speaker | Author | CEO | Strategist
ethan@ethanking.com
P.S. I'm not a programmer. Not a tech bro. Just someone who had to figure out how to do more with less when times got hard.
And 15 years later, I'm sitting in a Savannah TV studio talking about AI.
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