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Efficiency

Working smarter, not harder. Focus, routines, and the small habits that buy back hours every week.

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June 15, 2026

Botsitting Is an Operations Design Problem: Build an AI Review Queue Before You Roll Out More Copilots

The cleanup work behind your copilots is real labor. Stop calling it 'low adoption' and start treating it like operations.

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June 8, 2026

Before You Hand an AI Executive Assistant Your Calendar, Write Down the Rules Nobody Has Written Down

An AI executive assistant doesn't just schedule — it enforces a resource-allocation policy. If you never wrote that policy down, the AI is guessing. Here's what to define first.

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May 25, 2026

Your AI rollout isn't leverage until you run a capacity reallocation ledger

Stop celebrating hours saved. Start assigning every hour AI frees to a named outcome — or your rollout stays at the lifehack level.

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May 20, 2026

Stop Using AI to Speed Up Status Updates. Run an Exception-Based Operating Review Instead.

If AI just makes your Monday update deck arrive faster, you've spent the capacity gain on the wrong thing. Here's what to do instead.

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May 18, 2026

Before you give an AI agent your inbox, design the escalation tiers — not the prompts

Picking the model is the easy part. The real operator work is deciding what the agent closes, what it summarizes, and what hits your phone in ninety seconds.

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September 7, 2023

Fool-proof: 4 tips to prepare for a job interview

Most of the work in an interview is done before you walk in. Four tactics — including a story bank — that take the pressure off the day.

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July 30, 2023

4 ways to not get distracted at work

Your time and attention are limited. The good news: distraction is mostly environmental. Fix the environment, and focus follows.

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October 4, 2022

Quit work: how to unwind with an evening routine

Sleep is the most underrated productivity tool you own. An evening routine, repeated until it becomes a cue, is how you reclaim it.

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June 16, 2022

4 tips to never forget birthdays

If there are fifty people in your life worth congratulating, you owe one of them a birthday every ten days. Memory is not a strategy.

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