A book and a free course
The point of working less was never to work more.
AI can finally hand back the hours a century of busywork took from you. This is the method for keeping them: five moves to reclaim your week and defend it. Begin with the free 5-day course.
You did everything right. You learned the tools, automated the busywork, answered faster than ever. The productivity arrived. The hours did not leave.
Keynes told his grandchildren they would work fifteen hours a week by now. You work fifty. Every efficiency you have ever won was quietly reabsorbed into more output, more meetings, more scope. The problem was never that you worked too slowly. It is that nobody defended the time you saved. That is a skill, and it can be learned.
The method
Five moves to work less, not more.
The order matters. You cannot defend time you never found, and you should never automate work that should not exist in the first place.
- See Audit where your real week goes, at the task level.
- Shed Kill the work that should not exist. Eliminate before you automate.
- Shift Delegate the rest to AI.
- Shield Defend the reclaimed time from reabsorption.
- Spend Reinvest the hours in life, or in rare high-value work.
- 15 hrs
- the working week Keynes forecast for his grandchildren, by 2030
- 71%
- of UK four-day-week trial companies kept the shorter week after the pilot ended
- ~5×
- reported productivity gains on suitable tasks for skilled workers using AI assistants
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