Cal Newport

we can do it this is a trap this is the right way forward here's what we should do we can make this happen right clear succinct and smart care about your writing so when more people are trying to automate their writing

you should spend longer on your writing than you were before.

It's a huge differentiator from you and what's going on with AI.

It means that people value the things you send more than other things.

So if you're sending less because you're avoiding the pseudoproductivity trap, that's okay because everything else is going to seem sort of sloppy and your things might be more rare, but it's to the point when you send it.

You're trying to set yourself up as this sort of alternative device

to what's going on with some of this AI autogen.

So let's look at these five things again.

I think this is what you can do right now to help escape the busyness singularity.

Use weekly plans to make sure you're making time for what values.

Maintain a portfolio so you can point to other people.

Here's the stuff I'm doing that's actually valuable, that's unrelated to how busy I am.

Avoid what AI can do.

Tasks that could be easily or substantially automated by AI are tasks you need to spend less time on.

Always be pursuing upskill projects.

You want to be better, better, better, better.

You have to rely on skills, not busyness, if you're going to survive this moment without going insane.

And value your writing.

Be succinct, clear, and valuable when you write so you don't have to write as much and yet still get a lot of value or acclaim for what you do produce in the professional context.

All right, so this is what, you know, it's an idea I've been developing.