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Workflow Automation

9 essays

Turn AI Output Into Infrastructure
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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Automation Should Not Eat the Human
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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Invisible Work Is Still Work, and AI Can Help Reveal It
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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AI Is Best at the Work Before the Work
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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Reminders Are Not Systems: Building AI Rhythms That Actually Work
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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Set It and Forget It Is a Trap in AI Automation
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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Most Knowledge Work Is Recurring Work Pretending to Be One-Off
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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How Small AI Requests Become Repeatable Workflows
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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The Task Is Never the Task: AI and Hidden Workflows
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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