🚶♀️ Walk and talk
Melanie Perkins has embraced "AI walks" — using voice AI to organise thoughts on the go. Founders are now tapping AI to boost productivity and even skip meetings.
Melanie Perkins is a busy woman. As co-founder and CEO of Canva — valued at over $50 billion at its last raise — she’s built a career out of turning complex processes into simple, accessible tools. Now she’s revealed her own productivity hack: “AI walks".
In a LinkedIn post that has attracted hundreds of reactions, Perkins described how she combines daily walks with voice AI, using AirPods to capture thoughts that artificial intelligence later organises into actionable steps. Unsurprisingly, she mentioned she does this within Canva. But using voice AI to capture and organise thoughts is a deceptively simple approach that transforms what could be idle exercise time into structured planning sessions.
She’s not alone in her enthusiasm. Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar shared at November’s National Tech Summit that he’d been experimenting with similar AI-assisted thought capture using voice.
While tech executives like Perkins and Farquhar are using AI to enhance their thinking time, others are deploying it to avoid meetings altogether.
