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01
Direct,don't do.
Your job is to decide what good looks like, and let the machine reach it.
The principle
Deciding is the job.
The Blank Collar's first move is a demotion. Doing goes down the list and directing goes up. The producing, the processing, the chasing of updates: the work that used to define you is what agents now do faster and without getting tired.
What's left is harder and worth more. You decide what the work is for, then you judge whether the result is good enough to ship. You become the editor of a thousand drafts you never had to write, and you answer for taste and outcome. Nobody is counting keystrokes.
One human directs four agents.
How it shows up
In practice.
- 01You write the brief, not the deliverable.
- 02Keep the 10% of the job that is judgment and hand agents the 90% that is motion.
- 03Whatever the hours were, the measure is decisions and outcomes.
Routine output is the machine's now. The verdict is yours, and so is the blame.