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Ask Flex / Automating repetitive tasks

Ask Flex

How do you work smarter, not harder?

"How do I work smarter not harder? Everyone says it. Nobody says how."You asked Google. Flex answered.
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Flex's short answer

Working smarter means spending your effort on the parts of the job that need your judgment, and handing off the parts that are the same every time. Find your repeats, give them to AI to draft or fill, and keep the thinking and the checking for yourself.

✱ Flex's tips

Effort where it counts.

1

Find your repeats

One week. Write down what comes back.

2

Hand off the first drafts

Emails, reports, lists. AI drafts, you fix.

3

Finish one thing at a time

Switching is where the hard goes.

4

Write tomorrow's one thing

Before you leave. Start there.

Try this in your own Claude or ChatGPT

Here's what my work week looks like: [describe it, with rough minutes on the big things]. Show me where I'm working hard on things that could be drafted or set up once, and give me three changes that would get me the same results with less effort, starting with the easiest one.

Before you paste work stuff into any AI, check what your company allows.

If this comes back every week, the free Lab shows you how to hand it to Claude.

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Hand It Off or Keep It

Ten everyday office tasks, one at a time. Tap whether you'd hand it to AI or keep it. See Flex's call and why. A two-minute game.

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✱ What people ask
How do I work smart, not hard?

Same idea: hand off the repeats, keep the judgment, and finish one thing at a time instead of five at once.

What are some work smarter not harder examples?

Letting AI draft the weekly email, a report template that fills itself from new numbers, and batching replies twice a day.

How do I be efficient at work?

Shrink the time each task takes. Flex has a page on it.

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