The Pile

What life admin is

Life admin is the paperwork and errands of running your own life and household. It usually falls into a few areas:

• Time: your calendar, appointments, reminders.
• Health: booking, refills, insurance forms, records.
• Money: bills, subscriptions, budgets, investments.
• Home: repairs, utilities, moving, house hunting.

Why it's so draining

I think life admin drains people for three reasons.

What a bot is

A Grok Bot is an AI helper you give a job to. You describe the job in plain words, connect it to the apps it needs, like your email or your calendar, and it does the work and reports back.

Two piles, again

Here's the key idea. Sort your life admin into two piles.

The habit that keeps you safe

Every book in this series comes back to one rule.

Not advice

This book touches health, money, housing and legal paperwork. I'm not a doctor, a financial adviser, a real estate agent or a lawyer.

Meet the household

To keep things concrete, we'll follow one made-up household. They're not anyone real.

How the book is laid out

Chapter 2 starts with your calendar, because everything else hangs off it. Chapter 3 covers health admin.

A worked example: a week at the Parks', before the bots

Here's a typical week for the Parks before any bots. It's made up, but you'll probably recognize bits of it.

A prompt to start your list

Answering the questions takes about twenty minutes. The list it gives you is usually longer than you'd expect, and that's fine.

How long this takes to set up

The first bot takes an evening to set up and a week or so to trust. Each one after that is faster.

A worked example: the first month, week by week

Here's how the Parks' first month went, as a realistic pace.

Questions people ask

Do I need to be good with technology? No.