I confess that I keep reading about people who have programmed Claude to do everything but the dishes, but, I have found a comfortable place where I ask it questions and requestion until I get what I need and still add my own language and thoughts to it. I really haven't had the time to teach myself how to save time on AI.
The washing machine stat is wild. Fifty hours stayed fifty hours. I keep thinking about what my version of that is. Every tool I've added over the years and my weeks somehow never got lighter.
You’re forgetting one bucket of people that’s been increasing for a while now - people who fill their time up with nonproductive addictive activities, like social media scrolling, online shopping, gambling etc. At least the people in the first and second bucket are still trying to build and create.
I see the same thing happening all the time. Yes, you can use AI to free up your time, but if you're not doing the psychological work and healing around the need to always "be productive", then you'll just end up in a new time loop. In our output-oriented society, there's a lot of inner work and reprogramming that comes before most achieve a 20-hour work week.
'Multiplier.' Great adjective. We have so much technology that reduces friction and saves time... but so many of us just refuse to fill that time with anything worthwhile. In my view, people should use that time to build a greater sense of meaning into their lives... but few do.
People are already busy. How many times have you not gotten a return message from a friend, colleague or person you are doing outreach too? Now take job applications….how many times have you not gotten a response from an application? This is going to compound with AI unless people put a conscious effort into stop living that way. But they would rather be in weekly therapy, chasing the carrot at the next mafia of companies. Ask me how I know.
This really resonated with me. Technology often improves faster than the human systems around it. Companies keep adding new tools, automation, and AI, but exhausted people, poor training, invisible work, and outdated structures remain. The real transformation begins when organizations redesign work around how humans actually function, not only around how much they can produce.
Does anyone know if "The Creator MBA" course encompasses both "Grow + Monetize LinkedIn" (aka "LinkedIn Operation System") and "Content OS". I can't find answer to this question. Got his Creator MBA but not sure if I clearly see "Content OS"-like content in the Creator MBA.
I think the first bucket is the only bucket, as long as we sell time instead of output. If you’re employed 40 hours a week, the hours AI saves were never yours to spend on moonshots or long lunches. They belong to whoever is paying for them. So this can’t be solved by individuals making better choices. As long as the norm is selling 40 hours a week, the change has to happen at the societal level, in how we structure work itself.
The tool was never the variable. I've always been a busy person and I'm guilty of allowing tools of efficiency to give me a faster way to stay busy. I have a housekeeper a couple times a month, and that service doesn't free up any time for me either.
Haven't thought about it like this before, but I could already feel it, subconsciously. AI helps with doing more, but at what price? Work is scattered across 4-5 parallel workstreams (to be more productive while the agents are running, even though multitasking is the worst for achieving flow state in anything).
Your article points out really well that we should be smart and very deliberate about how we use these new tools, so they improve our lives rather than just keep us busier.
The dishwasher is such a good example: not only for the time saved, but also because washing dishes manually is almost meditative, helps clear the head, and, just being present; while loading the dishes out of the machine, is stressful and rushed.
But as you write, these are the tools, and it's totally up to the individual how they use them.
I confess that I keep reading about people who have programmed Claude to do everything but the dishes, but, I have found a comfortable place where I ask it questions and requestion until I get what I need and still add my own language and thoughts to it. I really haven't had the time to teach myself how to save time on AI.
The washing machine stat is wild. Fifty hours stayed fifty hours. I keep thinking about what my version of that is. Every tool I've added over the years and my weeks somehow never got lighter.
You’re forgetting one bucket of people that’s been increasing for a while now - people who fill their time up with nonproductive addictive activities, like social media scrolling, online shopping, gambling etc. At least the people in the first and second bucket are still trying to build and create.
I see the same thing happening all the time. Yes, you can use AI to free up your time, but if you're not doing the psychological work and healing around the need to always "be productive", then you'll just end up in a new time loop. In our output-oriented society, there's a lot of inner work and reprogramming that comes before most achieve a 20-hour work week.
'Multiplier.' Great adjective. We have so much technology that reduces friction and saves time... but so many of us just refuse to fill that time with anything worthwhile. In my view, people should use that time to build a greater sense of meaning into their lives... but few do.
The machine is a multiplier.
If you are smart, compassionate, creative, the machine will scale that. So the machine is a magnifier and multiplier like wealth.
People are already busy. How many times have you not gotten a return message from a friend, colleague or person you are doing outreach too? Now take job applications….how many times have you not gotten a response from an application? This is going to compound with AI unless people put a conscious effort into stop living that way. But they would rather be in weekly therapy, chasing the carrot at the next mafia of companies. Ask me how I know.
Good post JW
This really resonated with me. Technology often improves faster than the human systems around it. Companies keep adding new tools, automation, and AI, but exhausted people, poor training, invisible work, and outdated structures remain. The real transformation begins when organizations redesign work around how humans actually function, not only around how much they can produce.
Does anyone know if "The Creator MBA" course encompasses both "Grow + Monetize LinkedIn" (aka "LinkedIn Operation System") and "Content OS". I can't find answer to this question. Got his Creator MBA but not sure if I clearly see "Content OS"-like content in the Creator MBA.
I think the first bucket is the only bucket, as long as we sell time instead of output. If you’re employed 40 hours a week, the hours AI saves were never yours to spend on moonshots or long lunches. They belong to whoever is paying for them. So this can’t be solved by individuals making better choices. As long as the norm is selling 40 hours a week, the change has to happen at the societal level, in how we structure work itself.
The tool was never the variable. I've always been a busy person and I'm guilty of allowing tools of efficiency to give me a faster way to stay busy. I have a housekeeper a couple times a month, and that service doesn't free up any time for me either.
Thanks Justin. I agree.
We’ll just do more of what we already do.
The point is to be intentional. Conscious of your tendencies and steer the free time.
The direction is ours. 🙏
Haven't thought about it like this before, but I could already feel it, subconsciously. AI helps with doing more, but at what price? Work is scattered across 4-5 parallel workstreams (to be more productive while the agents are running, even though multitasking is the worst for achieving flow state in anything).
Your article points out really well that we should be smart and very deliberate about how we use these new tools, so they improve our lives rather than just keep us busier.
The dishwasher is such a good example: not only for the time saved, but also because washing dishes manually is almost meditative, helps clear the head, and, just being present; while loading the dishes out of the machine, is stressful and rushed.
But as you write, these are the tools, and it's totally up to the individual how they use them.