The Seven-Day Chore Audit
Capture every routine web chore that took your time and gave nothing back in judgment or satisfaction, working from the past few days or your memory and browser history. Aim for ten to fifteen.
Is This Chore Ready to Hand Off?
Rate any single chore by scoring it from 1 (low) to 5 (high) on four criteria. Start with Frequency: a task you do weekly earns more than a once-a-year one.
What This Book Asks of You, and What It Gives Back Checklist
- Frequency — How often does this chore repeat? A task you do weekly earns more than a once-a-year one.
- Specifiability — Could you write down exactly what "done correctly" looks like? If you can't define success, an agent can't hit it.
- Reversibility — If the agent gets it wrong, how easily do you undo it? Free and instant scores high; money out the door scores low.
- Tedium — How little does this task deserve your attention? Pure drudgery scores high; work that benefits from your judgment scores low.
The Moment the Audit Stops Being Enough
Your scored list tells you which chores are tedious and roughly how ready they are to hand off—but not what happens when one goes wrong. A task can be perfectly specifiable, deeply tedious, and still the worst thing to hand an agent, because one bad action outweighs every hour saved.
Run Your List Through the Triage Worksheet
Take your top candidates and process each through a prompt block that forces the three questions in the order that matters. Start with the worst outcome if the agent acts wrongly: what breaks, and the cost in money, time, or reputation.