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Workflow Automation
9 essays

June 15, 2026
Turn AI Output Into Infrastructure
AI compounds when it helps create the thing that helps create future things.
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May 27, 2026
Automation Should Not Eat the Human
When automation develops its own administrative ecosystem, it has started charging rent.
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May 22, 2026
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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May 20, 2026
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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May 13, 2026
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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May 11, 2026
Set It and Forget It Is a Trap in AI Automation
“Set it and forget it” is how rot gets a login. The better model is rhythm.
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May 6, 2026
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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May 4, 2026
How Small AI Requests Become Repeatable Workflows
Be suspicious of small requests. Many of them are secretly recurring workflows.
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May 1, 2026
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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