Focus Friday: One System Beats Ten Experiments

Published on January 23, 2026 at 7:33 AM

AI makes it easy to experiment.

It also makes it easy to scatter your attention.

Right now, most teams are running too many small tests and learning almost nothing from them.

That is not momentum.

That is motion.

Focus Is the Real Multiplier

Progress does not come from doing more with AI.

It comes from doing one thing well enough that it actually changes how work gets done.

One system that:

  • Has a clear owner

  • Solves a real recurring problem

  • Replaces an existing workflow

  • Gets used every week

That single system will teach you more than ten disconnected pilots ever will.

 

What to Ignore This Week

Ignore:

 

  • New tools you do not have a problem for

  • Features you are not ready to operationalize

  • Experiments with no path to ownership

 

None of those compound.

 

Where to Put Your Attention Instead

Ask one question and stay with it:

What is the one process that causes the most friction right now?

Not the most interesting.

Not the most advanced.

The most annoying. The most repetitive. The one people quietly work around.

That is where AI earns its keep.

 

The Takeaway

Focus is not about saying yes to the right thing.

It is about saying no to almost everything else.

Build one system that matters.

Then let it compound.

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