Hard Mode First | Cruel Efficiency  

I’ve always been the kind of person who can get a lot of things done in a single day. But for the past 6 months or so, I’ve been operating under a near-constant state of hyper-productivity, largely enabled by my prolific usage of AI tools that allow me to shave hours or minutes off of every single task.

I can write an event brief in minutes, and publish a website in under an hour. There have been multiple instances where, due to the instant design abilities of gamma.app, while on a conference call where my human counterparts are debating something, I quietly use AI in the background to immediately move the task forward, or to solicit the opinion of a trained custom GPT that has just enough context to offer that objective, middle-of-the-road take.

Once, on a call with an external funder, when another participant presented a set of slides (which we hadn’t been asked to prepare), I turned our detailed project plan into a set of our own slides on the spot, in seconds. I screen shared those net new slides less than 30 seconds after creating them. No one seemed the wiser. 

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