Season 2 • Episode 11
AI Series, Part 2: AI Is Coming for the Work That Made Us Look Busy
A mid-career guide to separating the parts of your job AI can do, the parts it can assist with and the work that still depends on human judgment, context, trust and accountability.
About This Episode
AI may not take your entire job, but it may absorb the work that used to fill a lot of your day. Jennifer and Julie focus on the mid-career squeeze: professionals who are established enough to have expertise but still have years of work ahead while automation changes the bundle of tasks that make up their roles.
In This Episode
- Why a job is better understood as a bundle of tasks than as one indivisible role
- How to identify tasks AI can automate, tasks AI can assist with and tasks that still require people
- Why judgment, context, taste, trust and accountability become more valuable as routine work gets easier to automate
- How to audit your current work rather than waiting for someone else to redesign your role
- A practical 30-day approach to experimenting with AI-supported workflows
- Why creating one visible, useful win can matter more than becoming an abstract AI expert
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Mai Tai
The Mai Tai combines aged rum, lime, orange curaçao and orgeat over crushed ice. The Office Space nod is intentional: a little tropical escape for anyone wondering what happens when the busywork starts disappearing.
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