The AI Workweek

Chapter 8 Spending Time on What Actually Matters

Roughly 85–90 percent of the in-person time you will ever spend with your children happens before they turn 18. Most parents learn that statistic too late, somewhere in the middle of a stretch of years that felt busy and necessary and like it would eventually slow down. It does not slow down on its own. You have to decide to slow it down, and that decision requires having something to slow it down with. Time is not freed by wanting it back. It is freed by building systems that stop consuming it.

Before any of the sections in this chapter will move the needle, one thing has to change first. What you do matters, but how you communicate what you do matters significantly more. Most professionals are doing more valuable work than the people around them realize, not because the work is hidden, but because the language used to describe it undersells it.

The difference between being seen as an executor and being seen as a strategic contributor is rarely the work itself. It is the sentence used to describe it in a meeting, a performance review, or a conversation with a decision maker. Each section in this chapter includes an example of how most people currently talk about that area of their work, and how that same contribution sounds when the language reflects its actual impact.

AI Parenting Paradox

This book is about using AI to get your time back. The whole premise is that the right tools, used with intention, can return hours to your ...