Enrico Schaefer questions whether AI actually saves time or just lets you pile on more work. At Tony Robbins' AI Advantage Summit, the pitch was that AI would "recapture time" to make us better humans. But Schaefer argues AI adoption requires discipline: you have to decide what matters, integrate tools into your workflow, and actively manage the extra capacity, or you'll just end up exhausted with more tasks.
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As you know, I've been kind of following the AI Advantage Summit, Tony Robbins, to kind of see what they're doing, you know, because they're trying to bring AI to the masses. I respect that. But where do you begin? How do you even begin? Because the reality is AI is in many ways a personal journey. If you're not figuring out what's important to you and figuring out how to best use AI on the things that are most important to you, You can't really learn from someone else. You might get some ideas, you might get some inspirations, but the reality is you need to do the work and you need to do it around your day, your work product, your workflow, your process. Then you can start to improve the way you use it. That's really the easy part because you can see how it is that you might want to use it better. But here's the main message that they're promoting. in the AI Advantage program, and it's that you should use the AI tools in order to recapture time. Use that time to become a better human. Great messaging. Love it. But I don't know that I agree that you get a lot of time back by using AI. You can do so much more and there's always more to do. It's not like there's no more demand of you just because you did 100 things more in a day than you did the day before. So if you're like me and there's just an endless list of things that you can do, learn, study, iterate on, brainstorm, massage, well then the list never ends and you are taxed by the end of the day because you have used so much mental energy in interacting with this tool that you're actually more exhausted. It didn't do the work for you. It just pushed you to do so much better work. It really took you to the outer limits of your domain expertise. So I don't know. Word is that it will save you time, and there's a lot of that content on the internet, but I'm not sold yet. I think you have to manage our time, given the fact that we can do so much more with AI as lawyers, as people, that you still have to figure out how you are going to use your time professionally and personally. My name's Enrico. Go ahead and subscribe, share. Like, ask any questions in the comment. What do you think? Is AI saving you time or is it just allowing you to do more on a bucket that keeps overflowing?
