The Bloat We Accepted As Normal

Think about a typical business initiative in 2024:

1. Someone has an idea

2. They schedule a meeting to discuss it

3. People prepare presentations

4. The meeting spawns more meetings

5. Committees form to evaluate

6. Stakeholders need alignment

7. Plans get created

8. Resources get allocated

9. Progress gets tracked

10. Reports get generated

11. Reviews get scheduled

12. Adjustments get made

13. More meetings follow

We accepted this as "how business works." We were wrong.

The Truth About Business Bloat

The shocking reality: Most business activity exists to:

• Bridge human knowledge gaps

• Coordinate across limited humans

• Handle human processing limits

• Manage human attention spans

• Deal with human availability

None of this is about value creation. It's all about managing human constraints.

The Great Compression Begins

When AI Workers arrive, something stunning happens. All the activities we thought were "business" start vanishing:

Meetings? AI Workers don't need to "sync up"

Reports? Perfect memory makes them pointless

Planning sessions? AI Workers understand and execute

Status updates? Continuous awareness makes them obsolete

Review cycles? Constant optimization renders them moot.

The Collapse of Coordination

Entire job categories are vanishing:

• Project managers (AI Workers don't need managing)

• Coordinators (Nothing to coordinate)

• Middle managers (No gaps to bridge)

• Report writers (No reports needed)

• Planning specialists (Planning becomes instant)

The New Business Reality

What's left when we remove human limitations?

• Pure intent

• Direct execution

• Immediate results

• Continuous optimization

• Real value creation

The Psychology of Letting Go

Here's the hard truth: Most of what you do at work is unnecessary. It always was. We just couldn't admit it because we had no alternative.

Consider a typical manager's week:

• Monday: Status meetings (unnecessary with AI Workers)

• Tuesday: Planning sessions (instant with AI Workers)

• Wednesday: Coordination calls (obsolete with AI Workers)

• Thursday: Progress reviews (continuous with AI Workers)

• Friday: Report generation (pointless with AI Workers)

The Value Revolution

When we remove human limitations, we discover what business really is:

• Pure value creation

• Immediate execution

• Continuous optimization

Everything else was just managing our limitations.

The Final Compression

The future of business isn't about doing more. It's about doing less:

• Less coordination

• Less communication

• Less management

• Less everything

Until all that's left is pure value creation.

The Hard Truth

Because when it does, we'll finally focus on what matters:

• Real innovation

• True creativity

• Actual value

• Human potential

The Path Forward

The great compression isn't coming. It's here. The question isn't whether your business activities will disappear, but whether you'll help lead the compression or resist it until it's too late.

The future belongs to those who understand: Less business activity means more value creation. Everything else was just managing human limitations we no longer have.

Welcome to the great compression. Your calendar is about to be very empty. And that's exactly how it should be.