There’s a trap when letting AI improve your efficiency and productivity. By heavily optimizing your daily life, you lose the chance of serendipity. If there are no cracks in your schedule, nothing unsuspecting, unusual, or surprising can happen. You think this is good, but it’s only good if your routine already considers everything your life can be. Instead, your routine merely encompasses what your life is, but leaves no room for it being something else. Being hyper-efficient implies you will get lessdone of the things you can’t account for, the things that are not measurable. The things that you’d know actually matter if you were to ask an 85-year-old on the verge of death: love, children, friendship, happiness, quality time, pursuing your hobbies, doing nothing. In a fundamental, spiritual sense, the more efficient you become, the less you get done. Sometimes, doing nothing is doing more.