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what to hand over
the one-page worksheet for deciding which half of your work an AI should do, and which half stays yours. five tests, and space to run them on your own week.
this is a page to work on, not just read. hold your actual week in your head, the real one with the boring parts in it, and write what is true under each test. nobody sees this page but you.
- 01
the three times test
a job you have done three times and were bored by every time is a candidate for handing over. a job you have done once is not, because you do not know its rules well enough to teach them yet.
from me editing was my three times job. i knew by video ten.
list the three jobs you would hand over tomorrow if you could.
- 02
the keep list
the part you are good at and enjoy never gets handed over. that is not an efficiency question. it is the reason the work is yours at all.
from me i write my own words and do my own talking. that was decided before anything else.
what is the part of your work that is actually you? write it down and protect it.
- 03
the privacy line
before anything is handed over, ask one question: would you mind, particularly, if this ended up somewhere else? if the answer is yes, it does not go in.
from me this is the test i run on every single file.
name one thing you are not handing over. ever.
- 04
the green check rule
never trust the report that says it worked. look at the finished thing itself, the way a stranger would see it, before you call anything done.
from me every serious mistake mine ever shipped had passed every check it ran.
for the first job on your list: how would you catch a mistake by looking?
- 05
the never unattended list
anything that posts, sends, deletes or spends money runs while you watch. no exceptions, however boring it gets.
from me this rule has no interesting backstory, because i never broke it.
write your own four verbs.
which job goes first, and how will you know, by looking, that it was done right?