Over the long Memorial Day weekend, I decided to make the most of a very rainy day off. With a little extra time to look at my very busy week ahead, I wondered whether I was ruthlessly optimizing the wrong things. So, I decided to try a weird experiment. I opened ChatGPT and asked it to channel the philosophy made famous by leadership expert Simon Sinek.
Sinek's philosophy is essentially this: rather than focusing on what you do or how you do it, you have to start with why. For me, that meant instead of asking AI to help me work faster, I asked it to help me undersatnd why I was working the way I was in the first place. Essentially, giving AI permission to audit the way I work.
The results were surprisingly uncomfortable — and it completely rewired how I approach my workday.
