Each task is one twenty-to-thirty-minute action — the kind of work that ships before the day ends, not the kind that lingers on your todo list. Open it, do it, react ✓ in the cohort channel when it’s shipped.
WEEK 7 · TASK 1
Cowork Inventory + Redlines
Five things to automate end to end. Five things you never will.
Now that you've shipped one Cowork workflow, you build the map. List the five categories of your work Cowork could genuinely run end to end — and, just as important, the five where it's the wrong tool: anything pastoral, anything irreversible, anything that has to carry your voice. Draw the boundary before you build, not after something goes wrong.
Action checklist
- Read the Cowork docs enough to know what it can actually do.
- List five categories of YOUR work it could automate end to end.
- List five where Cowork is the wrong tool — pastoral, irreversible, voice-critical, relationship-critical.
- Make the boundary explicit and write it down. This is the operator's half of your Redlines.
THE BOUNDARY IS THE POINT
The men who get burned by agentic AI are the ones who never decided what it shouldn't touch. Drawing the line is not fear of the tool — it's command of it.
SCRIPTURE
Proverbs 22:3 — "A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished." Foreseeing where a tool shouldn't go is prudence, not paranoia.
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WEEK 7 · TASK 2
Build Your Cowork Prompt Library
Five reusable workflows you'll run every week. Use two now.
An operator's leverage compounds when his best prompts stop living in his head. This week you build a library of five reusable Cowork workflows — the recurring jobs of your week — and you put two of them to work immediately. Build the arsenal; then actually fire it.
Action checklist
- Draft five reusable Cowork prompts for recurring work, such as:
- The weekly status report.
- The content brief or first draft.
- Meeting prep from an agenda.
- Weekly family or household planning.
- A research summary on a recurring question.
- Save them somewhere you'll actually find them — a note, a doc, a folder.
- Run two of them this week on real work.
- Refine the two you ran based on what the output got wrong.
A LIBRARY YOU USE, NOT ONE YOU BUILD
The trap is spending the week building a beautiful library and running none of it. Build five, run two. The running is what teaches you.
SCRIPTURE
Proverbs 21:5 — "The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty." A prompt library is diligence stored up — plans you don't have to re-make every week.
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WEEK 7 · TASK 3
Multi-Step Research Workflow
Cowork researches across sources. You decide.
Some decisions need more than a single answer — they need a brief. This week you have Cowork research a real topic across three or more sources, synthesize it into one document, and surface the tensions and the uncertainties instead of pretending there's one clean answer. Then you read it and you decide. The tool gathers; the watchman judges.
Action checklist
- Pick a real topic you owe a decision on this week — a purchase, a strategy, a position.
- Have Cowork research it across 3+ sources and synthesize into one brief.
- Require it to surface the disagreements and what's uncertain — not just a tidy summary.
- Read the brief, make the call, and write one line on why. Decide by Friday.
SYNTHESIS IS NOT A VERDICT
AI can gather and arrange, but it can't bear the weight of the decision — that's yours, and it always will be. Read the brief, then own the call.
SCRIPTURE
Proverbs 18:17 — "The first one to plead his cause seems right, until his neighbor comes and examines him." A good research brief brings the neighbor — the other side — before you decide.
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