Part One
The broken promise
How the fifteen-hour week was forecast, why the productivity arrived but the free time did not, and the century of forces that quietly ate the difference. The diagnosis, made carefully, so the cure makes sense.
The book
Don’t Work Harder.
For ninety years the promise was that machines would give us our time back. They made us more productive instead, and the hours stayed. AI is the first technology powerful enough to make the short week real. This book is about the part nobody plans for: keeping the time once you have earned it.
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The structure
Three parts.
Part Two
The five moves
See, Shed, Shift, Shield, Spend. The working method, one move per part, with the examples and exercises to run each one. This is the part you will return to.
Part Three
Living it
The harder, quieter work: what to do with the hours once you have them, how to hold the line against a culture that rewards looking busy, and how to keep the time without guilt.
After reading
What you will be able to do.
- See exactly where your week goes, instead of guessing.
- Cut the work that should not exist, without waiting for permission.
- Hand durable, repeatable tasks to AI with instructions you reuse.
- Defend the time you reclaim so it is not quietly taken back.
- Spend the recovered hours on purpose, on what actually matters to you.
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