AI Productivity
15 essays
AI Productivity Is Too Vague. Show the Burden Removed.
Not vague productivity. Specific relief with receipts.
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Turn AI Output Into Infrastructure
AI compounds when it helps create the thing that helps create future things.
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Chat Is the Workshop, Not the Warehouse
A lot of AI value dies in the scroll swamp, where good ideas go to be vaguely remembered.
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Good AI Should Leave You With Something Usable
The answer helps once. The artifact helps again.
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Margin Is the Metric for Useful AI
Speed without margin is just burnout with better tooling.
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Automation Should Not Eat the Human
When automation develops its own administrative ecosystem, it has started charging rent.
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AI Should Protect Aliveness, Not Just Increase Output
The point of AI is not to become a more efficient toaster.
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Invisible Work Is Still Work, and AI Can Help Reveal It
Remembering is work. Noticing is work. It is just badly marketed.
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AI Is Best at the Work Before the Work
By the time you start the real work, half your energy has already been mugged in the parking lot.
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Reminders Are Not Systems: Building AI Rhythms That Actually Work
You have to perform for reminders. You get to live in a system.
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Most Knowledge Work Is Recurring Work Pretending to Be One-Off
I have been the human copy-paste bridge. The bridge is tired.
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How Small AI Requests Become Repeatable Workflows
Be suspicious of small requests. Many of them are secretly recurring workflows.
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The Task Is Never the Task: AI and Hidden Workflows
Ask AI for a grocery list, and it will reveal the operating system underneath your life.
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When to Use a Broad AI Prompt and When to Get Specific
“Just help with this” is a creativity engine. It is not a system.
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The Problem With One Giant AI Assistant
One AI for everything eventually becomes a very articulate junk drawer.
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