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Why Your Brain is Wired for Delegation
Jonathan explains how the human brain's internal structure is fundamentally built on the concept of delegating routine tasks to lower neural structures.
How to Delegate Your Health Optimization
Jonathan Swanson shares a high-leverage tactic for managing health by having an assistant centralize a decade of medical records to be analyzed by AI.
The Price of High Output is Inefficiency
Jonathan explains a counterintuitive rule of the universe: to increase total output, you must be willing to accept higher levels of inefficiency as you involve more people.
Time: The Fundamental Pillar of Health
Jonathan explains why time is the prerequisite for all other health habits, including sleep and exercise.
Why Your Assistant Should Become Your Second Brain
Jonathan explains why long-term commitment to an assistant is necessary to achieve high-level leverage and how they eventually become an extension of your own mind.
Offload Pain to Unlock Aspirations
A strategic approach to delegation that suggests starting with the monotonous tasks that drain your willpower to free up space for higher-level goals and relationships.
Why Voice is the Ultimate Delegation Tool
Jonathan Swanson explains the hierarchy of delegation and why voice notes are 3-5 times more effective than typing, allowing for faster feedback and less friction.
The White House Standard for Executive Support
Jonathan Swanson shares how working in the West Wing and observing the President's executive assistants redefined his understanding of what a high-level partnership looks like.
Using 'Anti-Charity' to Force Deep Work
Chris Williamson discusses extreme digital environment design, including software that shuts down your laptop and financial penalties involving donating to hated causes.
The Future of Proactive AI Assistants
A glimpse into the next generation of AI that watches your workflow to proactively identify and execute tasks without needing a prompt.
The Five Levels of Delegation
Swanson outlines a practical roadmap for delegation, starting from zero-cost options like friend networks to AI tools and professional assistants.
Exporting Your Personal Algorithm
How to move from 'novice' delegation to 'expert' delegation by turning your preferences into a repeatable process or algorithm.
The Tesla Self-Driving Model for Human Assistance
A fascinating look at the future of AI where humans act as the user experience layer while machines gradually automate mechanical tasks in the background.
The Cardinal Sins of Delegation
A breakdown of the psychological barriers—Pride, Guilt, Selfishness, and Lack of Commitment—that prevent high-performers from effectively delegating tasks.
Buying Time vs. Buying Things
A compelling argument for prioritizing the purchase of hours through delegation over the purchase of material goods, framing time as the ultimate non-renewable asset.
Why the Best Assistants Work for the Best Delegators
Jonathan breaks down the misconception that great assistants are born; rather, they are built by clients who are excellent at exporting their thinking and providing feedback.
Why Ambition Grows with Leverage
Jonathan reveals how freeing up cognitive load through delegation actually expands a person's ambition rather than just giving them free time.
The Four Levels of Delegation
Jonathan Swanson breaks down the progression of delegation from simple tasks to the 'clairvoyant' stage where an assistant anticipates needs before they are vocalized.
The Freedom Phone Strategy for Digital Focus
A practical experiment to reduce phone usage by creating a 'Freedom Phone'—a secondary device stripped of everything except essentials and locked behind a code.
The Social Stigma of Having a Chef
Chris Williamson and Jonathan Swanson discuss the hypocrisy of social judgment regarding household staff versus luxury car purchases, reframing delegation as job creation.
The Secret History of Great Delegators
A fascinating look at how history's most successful figures, from Einstein to Katherine the Great, used assistants to achieve massive output.