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Which Tasks to Delegate to AI and Which to Keep
Not every task should be AI-assisted. A grown-up framework for deciding what to delegate, what to keep, and what to co-write.
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- 1A Grown-Up Framework
- 2delegation
- 3judgment
- 4leverage
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Section 1
A Grown-Up Framework
The beginner mistake is to AI-ify everything. The expert move is to delegate ruthlessly on low-risk, high-volume work and protect the tasks where your judgment and relationships are the product.
Compare the options
| Task type | Low stakes | High stakes |
|---|---|---|
| Repetitive | Delegate fully (weekly reports, meeting summaries) | Co-write (quarterly plans, proposals) |
| Novel | Co-write (brainstorm, outline) | Keep (firing someone, a hard apology, board updates) |
- Weekly status emails to stakeholders
- Meeting recaps and action-item extraction
- First drafts of proposals or SOWs
- Research on a topic you'll verify anyway
- Routine data cleanup and report formatting
- Performance reviews and difficult 1:1 conversations
- Apologies with real reputational weight
- Any communication to someone who's grieving or upset
- Final-go decisions on hiring, firing, or budget cuts
- The handwritten note after a major moment
A Friday ritual that turns abstract delegation into a concrete personal operating manual.
A weekly audit you can run in 10 minutes:
1. List everything you did this week that took over 20 minutes.
2. Tag each: Delegate / Co-write / Keep.
3. For Delegate items: draft the prompt now and save it.
4. For Co-write items: note where your judgment mattered most.
5. For Keep items: note why. This list is your moat.
Run this every Friday for a month. Your AI usage will quietly
double in quality, not just volume.Key terms in this lesson
The big idea: AI leverage grows when you know what to hand off and what to guard. The keepers are fewer than you think, and more important than ever.
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