Not Every AI Idea Needs an Audience

David Fung

Helping tech leaders lead with less

Every AI idea you drop costs your team more than the idea is worth

You see the AI move before everyone else. So you share it, in a standup, in Slack, or in the hallway. Another idea, another direction. You're keeping the team ahead.

But from where they sit, the ideas blur. Which of these is real? What do I drop to chase it? Soon your team is managing your flood of ideas instead of shipping, and your best thinking lands as noise.

The problem is that every one of your ideas reaches an audience.

In this hands-on workshop, you'll build a triage filter that decides which AI ideas reach your team, which wait, and which you hand off. Then the harder part: a filter only holds if you know why you override it. You'll run a short diagnostic on the one idea you can't let sit, and name the belief underneath it. That belief is why most systems fail.

You'll walk out with:

• A filter you can run on any idea in under a minute
• The belief that drives you to hit send, and the tell that exposes it
• An if-then plan that makes it stick past this week

You build this live, on your own real ideas. The method comes from my 23 years in tech and speaking with 100+ leaders on my podcast. Walk in with a habit you can't see. Walk out with a filter that does the subtracting for you.

What you’ll learn

Stop dropping every AI idea on your team. Build a filter that decides which reach them, and uncover why you override it.

  • Sort real ideas through three routes: wait (hold it), trade (swap something off your plate), or designate (assign a skeptic)

  • Practice on your own AI backlog so the filter matches how you actually generate ideas

  • Run a short fear-setting probe (define, prevent, repair) on the idea you can't put down.

  • Surface the protector belief driving it: the quiet reason you need that idea heard.

  • Turn your guardrail into an if-then trigger: "When I catch myself skipping the 'trade' filter, I pause."

  • Pair with an accountability partner from the cohort to check your first week

Workshop agenda

  • Why subtraction beats addition in the AI era

    AI is the great adder, and you see moves before the room does. We start by naming that instinct as a strength, then the hidden cost: every idea reaching your team at once.

  • Map your idea-drop pattern

    Locate your idea-engine strength and your control tendency with a quick self-read. Then map one real AI idea-drop: the trigger, your reaction, and what your team actually experienced.

  • Build your three-route filter: wait, trade, designate

    Build the filter live on your own backlog. Sort each idea into wait (hold it), trade (swap something off your plate), or designate (name a naysayer to challenge it). Find the route you dodge.

  • Find the belief behind the override

    Run a short fear-setting probe on the one idea you can't let sit. Name the protector belief underneath it, the quiet reason you need it heard. This is why most filters fail by Monday.

  • Wire it in and make it stick

    Write the belief back into your filter as a guardrail. Turn it into an if-then plan, pair with an accountability partner, and leave with one experiment to test the belief in seven days.

Learn directly from David

David Fung

David Fung

SE leader turned leadership coach | 20+ years in enterprise SaaS

Trusted by Leaders at
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Who this workshop is for

  • Engineering leaders (VP, Director, CTO) whose offhand AI ideas land as mandates and quietly reshuffle the team's priorities.

  • Staff+ engineers and tech leads who flood Slack with AI ideas faster than the team can absorb or act on them.

  • Sales engineers, solutions architects, and technical PMs who relay every new AI move inward, blurring what's actually a priority.

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