The Architect's Workshop
Attendee Replay

The 308-Hour
Year

Recorded Thursday, August 27, 2026  ·  51 minutes  ·  Live on Zoom

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00:00
Why I capped my year at 308 hoursThe premise: work less in the business so you are building something sellable. How I held my time at 30 percent for two years and then sold the RIA.
05:42
The red, yellow, green filterRed moves money and happens today. Yellow happens this week. Green gets scheduled and does not get to interrupt you. Built live in ChatGPT.
17:53
Three reds a day, and why more is a lieMost of us get two to four hours of real peak energy. The live brain dump, and what the system surfaced as the actual top three.
22:58
Training it to think like youWidening the red list to give the system context, and turning it into a second brain that pushes back on your own prioritizing.
27:09
The breathing document and the 7 AM briefSeven or eight months of iteration on one task file, and the morning command brief that writes the day before I open my laptop.
34:23
The operations dashboard, liveThe full walkthrough of how one file feeds the whole dashboard, how it runs a solo practice, and where the build goes next.

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