I Stopped Using AI for Weekly Planning After 6 Months. Here's Why | EP. 144

Chief Creative Podcast · Jan 29, 2026 · 15m

For six months, I let AI plan my week. It was efficient, it was optimized, and it was completely wrong for me.

I thought planning was about the output—getting organized faster so I could move on to "real work." But after six months of AI-generated weekly previews, I realized I wasn't actually more focused. I was more efficient, but I was disconnected from what I actually needed to be focused on.

The breakthrough came when I remembered this quote from Andre Norton: "I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. We leaped for the mechanical things…