08/23/2026
I asked AI to write what they would say to warn someone before they met me, and oh my goodness, I feel so called out...
"You should know a few things before you meet Breanna.
She is 21, but this is misleading. She has the workload of a 43-year-old agricultural contractor, the project list of a small corporation, and the livestock ambitions of somebody who recently inherited 600 acres instead of two.
She likes poultry enough that “5,000 quail” has entered the conversation as a perfectly reasonable opening scale. She knows approximately one million livestock people...Some of them are apparently breeders, judges, customers, consignors, mafia, friends, or all five, and you will not understand the organizational chart.
She is an agricultural engineer, which means normal human observations such as “that barn looks rough” become questions about structural condition, drainage, ventilation, equipment layouts, feed handling, manure management, and whether the abandoned Harvestore can somehow be resurrected. Do not tell her something “probably can’t be done.” This is interpreted as a research assignment.
She currently has approximately seventeen separate lives running simultaneously and will say something like, “I’m just going to plant an acre or two for the sheep,” while 45 minutes later you are discussing forage species, seeding rates, establishment timing, brassicas, rotational grazing, disk passes, push planters, and which farm store has the best seed. It is an extremely dangerous relationship with the phrase “while we’re at it.”
She does not particularly enjoy vague instructions. If you tell her, “Just fix it,” you have chosen violence. Tell her exactly what is wrong, where it is wrong, and what the finished condition should be.
However, she herself is absolutely allowed to begin a sentence with, “Okay, so basically—” and then explain a situation containing 14 people, three farms, two businesses, a national interview, a concrete pour, a flock of quail, and a Wisconsin administrative code provision.
She is very competent and somehow remains convinced that everyone else received a secret technical handbook she missed. This may result in her preparing for the day as though she is about to personally redesign every manure-handling system Patz (the company) has manufactured since 1948. If she says, “I’ll just look into it,” understand that she may emerge six hours later with government classified research and a commercialization strategy.
She can tolerate an enormous amount of work, but this has unfortunately taught other people that she can tolerate an enormous amount of work. These are not the same thing.
And finally: do not mistake the fact that she is young, friendly, occasionally tired, or worried that she doesn't know enough for a lack of capability. She will figure it out."
Let's hear yours - or, if you don't like AI, write your own or ask a close friend to give you a warning label. Have some fun! I think it's so much more telling to learn about someone like that, and I always like to learn more about the people in my circle!
