Anat Weissman
On December 31st I turn 50.

I want 50,000 minutes back to what only humans can do.

Don't start by asking AI what it can do for you. Start by asking yourself what you want your time back for.Anat

Not because AI makes me. Because AI lets me.
Two minutes, in that order: what you would do with them, what AI can take, your dot on the line.

100 days. One line. Your dot is the next one.
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100 days to 50. 50,000 minutes back.

If I gave you 50 minutes back, what would you do with them?

Not what you would get done. What you would do.

Two minutes. Free.
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You said
read

Okay. Let's find your 50.

Look at your page. What is one thing on it that AI could take off your hands? If you can write it down, AI can probably do it.

The obvious ones
The everyday ones
Fun fact: over 70% of what we ask ChatGPT isn't even about work anymore. Source: OpenAI & Harvard, NBER, September 2025
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fighting my phone bill down

AI can do this. Will you let it?

Let it go and the 50 minutes come back to you, for this: Go for a walk.

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Good. That one stays human.

You said what you want your time for before you ever looked at the task, so keeping it is an answer and not a miss. Some of what is on your page is the reason you wanted the time.

You keep it. On purpose.
Your 50 minutes are still out there. What is one thing you will hand over?
No dot today

No dot today. The line will be here when you are.

You still named what you want the time for: Go for a walk. That was the real question, and nothing here says a machine has to be the one that answers it.

Tell Anat what you kept.
If you feel like it, write one line about the thing you are keeping and why. She reads that inbox herself.
anat@connecthedots.co
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Anat Weissman, winking
That's 50 minutes back.
Anat Weissman turns 50 on December 31st.
Her wish: 50,000 minutes back to what only humans can do.
100 days. Every dot adds 50.

When are you taking them?

The 50 minutes go to
read
Pick a day and a time.
Your oath
Signed: you
Free. The email is optional. If the line records your dot, it is how Anat can write to you about this line and about nothing else. It stays with her, it is never passed on, and one word to anat@connecthedots.co takes you off it. Leave it out and there is no way to reach you. If the line is not answering, nothing on this screen is kept at all, and the next screens say so.
Hand it over

Hand it over.

Now give this one to AI, while it is still in front of you. Forty seconds.

Paste this into your AI.
Open Claude Open ChatGPT
Copied. Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, or whichever one you use.
Your 50
that's your dot

You just got your 50 minutes. They're yours.

That's 50 minutes back.

And you already said what they are for.
Friday evening. Fifty minutes, for this: Go for a walk.
Put it in the calendar and it survives the week. Same day, every week.
You
Claimed today
One dot on the line · 100 days to 50 · 50,000 minutes back · connecthedots.co/50
Pass it on

Pass it on.

You got your 50. Give one person the chance to get theirs, and start them where you started: what would they do with 50 minutes back?

Copied. Paste it wherever you like.
Your dot tracks every minute it inspires.
Held to it
Want Anat to
hold you to it?
$5
Five dollars, once:
A personal check-in from Anat on your day. your day: did you take it back? Her, writing to you herself.
Your name and city beside your dot. You typed them a screen ago. On a free dot they stay in Anat's own list; the $5 is what puts them on the line itself.
And a small thank-you: $5 off a seat at Anat's talk, The Human is the Loop, Tel Aviv, November 2nd. About the talk
20% of every $5 goes to a youth charity. Anat is choosing the organisation now, and it will be named here before the first $5 is taken.
Nothing is charged here yet. The $5 opens as soon as Anat's payment link is live, and it will open on this button. Your free dot is claimed either way.
What stays ours

AI has read every story. It was never in one.

The taste of coffee someone made you exactly right.
Knowing from the silence in a room that something is wrong.
Cringing at a story you're telling for the fifth time.
That's what Friday evening is for.
One more thing. It's her birthday. Want to wish Anat a happy 50th?
This opens your mail app with the wish ready, addressed to anat@connecthedots.co. She reads that inbox herself.
Want more of this? Anat's talk, The Human is the Loop. Tel Aviv, November 2nd.
See the talk →