Tim Ferriss: people use AI to do things faster that shouldn't be done at all
JeremyNguyenPhD · x · 2026-10-30
Tim Ferriss on the 4-Hour Workweek in an AI world: "people are taking things that probably shouldn't be done at all and they're doing them very, very quickly, using AI to create more work, not reduce work." He points back to the Define and Eliminate steps that precede Automate in his book.
Replicator pmillerd agrees, adding that in a probabilistic world the answer is probabilistic action: try random stuff, waste time, have fun.
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