Everyone's glued to the AI leaderboard like it's a scoreboard that decides the war. Cute. Also not the race that actually matters though!

7 days ago I stopped “testing” an AI assistant and just started using it to run things. Since then: 4,657 messages, 262 voice notes, 207 jobs handed off and roughly 343 hours of agent work. The surprising part is I’m not working less. I’m probably working more. But I’m carrying far less. Things don’t sit in my head anymore. They get owned, followed up, closed, or come back to me when a decision is actually needed. Anything irreversible still waits for my yes. So my work has changed. Less doing. More deciding, approving, correcting, pushing things forward. Maybe that’s what leverage actually is. Not doing less. Just doing less of what doesn’t need you.

#Cambridge allows #AI around the edges of the application. Then the interview starts and the machine has to leave! As polished applications become cheaper to produce, live evidence of thinking becomes more valuable. The file can be improved. The applicant still has to survive the follow-up question. collegify.com/blog/cambridge… @Cambridge_Uni @edunewsuk

80,000 students got AI access. Almost none of them read the policy that actually decides their grade.

Most think they've a filtering problem. 3 empty hours on your calendar can still mean 0hrs of real thinking. Not because time got stolen - because nobody drew a line around what's actually allowed to reach you. Here's what changed how I've been running things: as a company grows, the founder naturally becomes the routing layer for every unresolved thing inside it. Every exception, every "quick call," every 80%-done thing looking for one look before it ships. That's not a flaw in the system. That's just what happens by default if you don't design against it. So I stopped treating it as a time management problem and started treating it like a filtering problem instead. 3 things that actually moved the needle: 1, I stopped asking for answers Started asking for the assumption underneath them. Most "hard decisions" aren't actually hard. They just have an unstated assumption nobody's tested yet. 2. I decided most things don't need me by default. Not because I trust less, but because I got specific about what genuinely requires my judgment versus what just feels safer to escalate. Once you draw that line clearly, most of the "urgent" disappears. 3. I separated handing off work from handing off the decision. One buys you real time back. The other quietly erodes your own judgment. Money comes back. Teams rebuild. Even a bad year, you recover from. Time is the one thing that doesn't reset!! Exactly why the filter matters more than the calendar. What's something that lands on your desk weekly that you've simply never questioned whether it needs to?

One essay can pass Harvard's AI policy and fail Knight-Hennessy's. Here's exactly where each line is drawn and why disclosure, not detection, is becoming the real test.

The AI that helps isn't the one talking to your kid, it's the one coaching their tutor.

Went back to the classroom last week. Came back with 5 questions I'm identifying the answers for.

Wired GrokBot into my WhatsApp + SMS to forward OTPs to my accountant. Bank OTPs? It refuses. Me: Send it. Grok: No. Me: I’m instructing you. Grok: Still no. @elonmusk, feature or rebellion? Blown Away! 😂

The four year limit is not a lifetime cap. The I-94 controls authorised stay, The I-20 records the programme timeline, The EAD governs work permission, and The student's current admission determines - the transition. Reading any one alone can lead to the wrong decision!

Bengal’s 2026 verdict is being explained away as EVMs, SIR and conspiracy. The numbers tell a different story. 206 seats for BJP. 22 of 35 TMC ministers defeated, a 63% cabinet wipeout. A 92.93% turnout, the highest in the state’s history. Verdicts of this geography and this magnitude do not happen because of machines. They happen because a state has been quietly making up its mind for years, on jobs, on the syndicate economy, on why its brightest young people now build their lives in Bengaluru and Pune instead of Kolkata. As someone who has lived, worked and built in Bengal for decades, I have watched this mood form long before it arrived at the booth. It deserves to be read honestly. No one is entitled to convert a clear democratic verdict into a conspiracy theory because they lost. Bengal has finally spoken with rare clarity. The least we owe its people is to listen. This shouldn’t become a January 6th temptation.