That Meeting You Hate May Keep A.I. From Stealing Your Job
The New York Times • • business
Key Points:
- Dan Sirk works as a fractional chief marketing officer (CMO) for two companies simultaneously, leveraging AI tools like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT to significantly boost his efficiency.
- AI has reduced the time needed for tasks such as building websites from several months to about a month, and drafting messaging strategies from a week to under eight hours.
- Despite these efficiency gains, Sirk plans to limit his workload to three companies at most, citing the unavoidable time demands of human relationships and meetings.
- He currently attends around 10 meetings per week across two companies, and adding a third would increase meetings by 50%, making his schedule nearly full-time in meetings alone.
- Sirk emphasizes that while AI helps with tasks, the human element of meetings and interactions remains a critical constraint on how many companies he can effectively serve.
