As a founder, most of my days are packed with calls. The calls aren’t the problem it’s the aftermath. I used to burn 1–2 hours after every busy day just rewriting notes, drafting follow-ups, and turning conversations into action items. I tested an AI assistant called Cluely to see if it could handle the grunt work. It listens to calls, builds summaries, and even drafts the follow-up emails. To my surprise, it actually worked. Suddenly those 1–2 hours of admin just disappeared. I was getting back close to 10 hours a week. But here’s the twist: I didn’t use that time wisely. Instead of moving faster, I just slowed down. My mornings turned into doomscrolling. My afternoons turned into staring at a blank doc and finding excuses to research random things. It made me realize something important: tools can remove friction, but they can’t tell you how to spend your freedom. The real work is still building the discipline and structure to use that time well. For me, that meant strict time blocking and treating deep work like investor meetings. The AI solved a pain point, but the real growth came from fixing my own habits.