Quick Win: The AI workflow that can replace your morning scroll

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Nov 9, 2025

Morgan Brown, Vice President of Product and Growth at Dropbox, shares his innovative use of AI to streamline work processes. He explains how he automates routine tasks like email triage and creates a personalized daily news digest from various sources. His approach began with one simple question about daily information consumption, leading to a workflow that ranks essential updates before his morning coffee. Brown emphasizes the importance of filtering meaningful insights over being overwhelmed by information.

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INSIGHT

Three Ranked Signals By Coffee Time

An AI workflow can deliver the day's biggest breakthroughs ranked and contextualized before you finish your coffee.
Presenting only three can't-miss signals reduces overwhelm and speeds decision-making.

ANECDOTE

Daily AI Briefing That Replaces Morning Scroll

Morgan built a daily AI workflow that scans Substack, X, Archive, YouTube and podcasts to surface top AI signals.
It ranks findings as world-changing, interesting, incremental, or noise and summarizes top three for his product role.

ADVICE

Automate Email Triage With An Agent

Automate email triage using an agent to categorize, summarize newsletters, flag priority emails and draft replies.
Run the agent daily to keep your inbox managed and reduce manual handling.

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What if every morning you woke up to the biggest breakthroughs in your industry - already summarised and ranked before your first sip of coffee?

In this Quick Win episode, I speak with Morgan Brown, Vice President of Product and Growth at Dropbox, about how he uses AI to simplify his workday - from automating his inbox to designing a daily AI briefing that scans and summarises the entire landscape of research papers, newsletters, tweets, and podcasts. Starting with one simple prompt, Morgan built a system that cuts through noise and delivers only what really matters.

Morgan and I discuss:

How Morgan uses AI to automate routine tasks like email triage and information curation.

The process he followed to build a personalised daily AI news digest.

Why his approach started not with coding, but with one simple question: What do I keep checking every day?

How he refined his system through prompts, iteration, and feedback loops — just like editing a great piece of writing.
The mindset shift from consuming more information to filtering for signal over noise.

KEY QUOTES

“I realised there was no way to stay on top of that volume consistently - so I started with a prompt.”

“I didn’t start with coding or fancy tools. It started with asking, what sources do I keep checking and how can I pull them together?”

Connect with Morgan Brown on X (Twitter), LinkedIn, and his website https://www.morganbrown.co/

Check out Morgan’s book Hacking Growth.

Get your hands on Morgan’s AI research prompt here.

Listen to the full conversation with Morgan here

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