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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.

Routine output is the machine's now. The verdict is yours, and so is the blame.

Direct, don't do · The Blank Collar