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Take a Day for Tinker Time

The Sunday Afternoon Strategy that changes your organization's relationship to AI forever.

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This chapter covers: The Sunday Afternoon Strategy that changes your organization's relationship to AI forever. Read the full chapter in No One Works Here.

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“Disruption does not knock on the door and ask for permission. It quietly unscrews the hinges.”

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Take a Day for Tinker Time — Workbook
A shipped V1, an hour-by-hour record, and a different sense of what you can do yourself.· 9 pages
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Take a Day for Tinker Time — Discussion Guide
Blocking an actual Tinker Day, the regulated-industry excuse versus the Air-Gapped hour, and the Manager-to-Maker identity shift.· 6 questions · 1 page
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AI prompt library mapped to this chapter· 4–6 pages
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Action items you can start this week· 1–2 pages
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Where Are You, Honestly — Screener
A 0–5 self-assessment of how much AI you actually use today, plus the ground rules that apply to every track before you touch a tool.· 2 pages · start here
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Getting Started — Track 0
You have barely used these tools. Eight hours from now you’ll know how to ask, how to ground an answer in your own material, and how to tell when it’s lying to you.· 6 pages · Level 0
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Past the Chat Box — Track 1
You already use a chat tool well. Eight hours from now your work will live in something that persists, remembers, reaches your material, and can be handed to someone else.· 7 pages · Levels 1–2
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Your First Agent — Track 3
You already use purpose-built AI tools. Eight hours from now you’ll have built something that runs on a trigger, does work while you sleep, and can be turned off by someone who is not you.· 7 pages · Levels 3–4
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The Orchestrator — Track 5
You have agents running already. Eight hours from now you’ll be able to measure them, break them deliberately, compose them, and defend them to someone who is not impressed.· 7 pages · Level 5

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Paul Cheek is a global expert on AI-driven enterprises and enterprise innovation. He is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Senior Advisor for Entrepreneurship & Artificial Intelligence at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. As founder of the AI-Driven Enterprise Institute and Entonomy, he develops data systems and software that power AI agent-run businesses. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, bestselling author of Disciplined Entrepreneurship: Startup Tactics, and recipient of MIT’s Monosson Prize for impact on entrepreneurship education, Paul has advised and built ventures from seed to scale, with his work featured in Bloomberg, CNBC, Forbes, CNN, Inc., Entrepreneur, and more.

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