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AI Plans My Weekend
Silentpoisen hands an AI his messy weekend to-do list and gets back a schedule so packed it needs six coffees and zero children to survive. Turns out the fix isn't a better schedule, it's a better question.
In this episode:
The AI's Saturday starts at 6am and includes "intentional leisure," a phrase Magpie refuses to forgive.
A 90-minute desk cleanup block actually takes 20 minutes once he stops avoiding it.
The real fix: ask AI to sort priorities into must do, should do, nice to do, before it builds a schedule.
The best question of the day turns out to be what should I skip, not what should…
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