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.
You said
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Where is your 50 hiding?
What I've been putting off for months
What repeats every week
What I keep nodding along to
Too small to plan, too fun to skip
Have a better task to give AI? I want great ideas.
Fun fact: over 70% of what we ask ChatGPT isn't even about work anymore. Source: OpenAI & Harvard, NBER, September 2025
fighting my phone bill down
AI can do this. Will you let it?
Let it go and the 50 minutes come back, for this: Go for a walk.
hmmmm…. are you sure?
No dot today. The line will be here when you are.
You still named what the time is for: Go for a walk. That was the real question.
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
anat@connecthedots.co
That's 50 minutes back.
Anat 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
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Pick a day and a time.
Your oath
Signed: you
Your initial, your city and what you would do join the line. Your name, your email and your task never do.
In a week I write to ask if you took them.
Free. Your prompt comes back on the next screen.
Hand it over.
Now give this one to AI, while it is still in front of you. Forty seconds.
Paste this into your AI.
Copied. Paste it into your AI.
that's your dot
Congratulations!!!You just got your 50 minutes. They're yours.
That's 50 minutes back. minutes have been claimed on this line so far.
Saved. It is in your downloads, ready to post.
People who pay, show up. For their own fifty minutes.
$5
The list is being written right now, by the people on the line. Every entry is a real hand-over from a real person in the campaign: initials, dated, verified.
The extra is you, paying it forward. One time, not a subscription. Anat sends the receipt by hand until the rail does it.
Thank you. The weekly note starts this week, and Anat sends your receipt by hand.
Nothing is charged yet. Your free dot is claimed either way.
Your initial, your city and what you would do join the line, whether you pay or not. Your name, your email and your task never do.
20% of every payment goes to teaching children and young people what stays ours. The organisation is named when the 100 days close.
Dot no.
This one is yours.
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an hour you pickis yours
Your link
connecthedots.co/50/
Copied. Every person who joins through it adds fifty minutes.
The human is the loop. You are the loop.
Only humans can:
Taste the coffee someone made you exactly right.
Know from the silence in a room that something is wrong.
Cringe at a story you're telling for the fifth time.
That's what an hour you pick is for.
Your dot tracks every minute it inspires.
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