The Irreducibles Sort

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The Irreducibles Sort
Issue 01 companion · The work AI cannot take from you

The Irreducibles Sort

AI is not coming for your leadership. It is coming for the parts that were procedure wearing a suit. This sorts your real week into the work only you can own, and the work the machine can carry - so you protect the first and hand over the second on purpose.

Does this task carry a consequence only a person can own?

The four markers - if any apply, it stays yours

Judgement under uncertainty. No clean answer; someone has to decide with incomplete facts.
Taste. The call on what is good, what ships, what is beneath the brand.
Institutional memory. You know why the last deal soured, who to never put in a room together.
The accountable signature. If it goes wrong, your name is on it.
None of them apply? It is probably procedure - summarising, formatting, comparing, moving information from one container to another. Hand it over.

Type a task, then file it. Run through everything on your plate this week - meetings, decisions, the thing you keep doing yourself.

Keep - only you can own it
Judgement, taste, memory, the signature.
Nothing here yet.
0 tasks
Hand over - the machine can carry it
Procedure. Prepare, draft, compare, move.
Nothing here yet.
0 tasks
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