Which parts of your workweek can AI already do?

AI can already do more of your week than you can imagine, maybe more than we will ever be able to use. It's like a washing machine or a fridge that connects to Bluetooth and does a hundred things, and you still use one or two of them. What AI can't do is the lunch where you close a deal, or the dinner with the decision maker who can change something in your business.

I was waiting for a train on the Underground (the thumbnail image not the one with the dog 😁) and loved this creative calendar so much that I took a few photos. It's an airline ad, and it shows how much creativity can make out of something as simple as a week. Honestly, planning my week is one of my problems, and maybe yours too. Even a schedule or a reminder that is only for me, I tailor until it is perfect🤷. And since I write everything in English, which is not my first language, I find several ways to say it instead of just adding it as it goes. Then I realise I spent so much time on noise and not signal. Below is a video where Kevin O'Leary explains how Steve Jobs taught him to focus on only three useful things a day. If you didn’t see it - maybe you'll find it useful. Thanks for subscribing in case you still didn’t 🫣😁

So this is the question I keep coming back to: when AI can do most of your week, what are people still paying you for? For two years now we have been using AI agents in business that set things up, do tasks and handle a lot of the duties we used to do by hand. And yet the team is growing and we are busier than ever. Three years ago we had a chess board in the office and spent an enormous amount of time playing, chatting and brainstorming. Now, with AI agents everywhere, we don't even have time for a cup of coffee together. Is it the same in your office?

Here is a test that takes 5 to 10 minutes. Open last week's calendar and go slot by slot. Mark every hour that AI could do today, or next year, in yellow. Mark every hour where someone needed you specifically - a client, a decision, a team, a deal - in blue. Then count both. The blue hours are what you are really paid for. The yellow hours are what you should hand to AI, and I mean AI agents, not chatbots, before your competitors do it and you end up behind them. My advice is to spend the hours you win on the blue ones.

How many of your hours last week were blue?

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