A Small System That Saves Me 5+ Hours Each Week

by Nat Currier 10 min read
Systems ThinkingProductivityWritingAI
A Small System That Saves Me 5+ Hours Each Week
Excerpt

Most lost time in deep work is not task time. It is context rebuild time. This is the small, composable system I use to lower activation energy and reclaim five to seven hours each week.

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Nat Currier. "A Small System That Saves Me 5+ Hours Each Week." nat.io, 2026-02-19. https://nat.io/blog/small-system-saves-me-five-hours-week

This post explains a personal cognitive-engineering workflow that reduces weekly context rebuild costs through long-form source documents, a distillation pipeline, AI-assisted extraction, and context anchoring.

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