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Beyond saving five minutes.
Hörni. Everyone talks about AI saving time. Me too, ofc. I love to save time as much as anyone. Do the math: 5 minutes a day saves me 2,5 workdays a year.
But that's not where the real value is. The real value? Killing the tasks that make folks hate Mondays. Every boring, repetitive, monkey-work task you remove with AI doesn't just save minutes. It increases well-being. Job satisfaction. Energy for the work that actually matters.
That's why I work with ”The Pain Killer Sprint”: a 3-week format where a team picks ONE hated task and murders it with AI. Week 1: Name the pain. Week 2: One person builds the fix. Week 3: Demo, adopt, share. No budget needed. No permission to ask for. Just pick the task everyone collectively groans about and fix it. (And if you don't have a team? Your AI is your team. Invite them to the process, for real.)
An example slide is added below. Steal it, run it, improve it.
Aside: I have some 50 workshop formats in my toolbox, most with multiple versions. For example, the Pain Killer also comes as a 30-60-90-day sprint, complete with a pitch to your manager and a budget request.
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A slide titled The Pain Killer Sprint, outlining a practical exercise for finding and addressing a recurring problem with AI. The source image is preserved unchanged.
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The wider Four Jobs framework behind making time to improve the work, yourself and the team.
A personal example of removing a hated task: Dottie takes on the list management that gets in the way of doing things.