How much of my job should I delegate to AI versus keep doing myself?

I think about this backward from how most people do. They ask, "What can AI do?" and assume the answer is automatic. Better question: "What do I want to become more skilled at?" and "What was never really mine to do anyway?" The Taoist view here is about alignment, not optimization. When you're in genuine flow with work, there's no friction between effort and outcome. AI should remove friction, not create distance from what matters. If you delegate the thinking—the part where you learn something about yourself or the world—you've kept the busywork and lost the education. Here's my honest framework: Keep what teaches you. Keep what connects you to other people. Keep what you'd miss doing. Delegate the rest *without guilt*—truly delegate, don't half-do it while AI half-does it. That splitting is what exhausts people. The tricky part is knowing what you'd actually miss. You won't know until you're not doing it. Some people think they love writing emails until they stop; others discover they love it after all. Give yourself permission to experiment. Delegate something for two weeks. Notice what you feel. That feeling is data. Trust it more than any productivity metric.