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Athena prototyped an AI that monitors screens to auto-delegate tasks
“We've built an internal demo of this. It's not live for customers, but the way it works is we build something that watches your screen as you work, and it screenshots the screen, and when it identifies things that you should be delegating to your assistant, it…”
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Jonathan Swanson delegates all routine personal friction like DMV forms
“I never wait on hold. I never put my credit card in the internet. I would never fill out DMV forms, never do passport renewal.”
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Jonathan Swanson employs six specialized personal assistants for different life domains
“I just had one that did everything as a generalist, and now a half dozen, which I know sounds crazy, but each one specializes in different things. One is on work, one is on home, one is on kids, family, travel finances.”
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Jonathan Swanson uses a chief of staff to manage his personal assistants
“And then I have a chief of staff who sits on top, who distributes work across all of them.”
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Athena chose the Philippines for executive assistants due to caretaking culture
“One of the reasons we picked it for assistance is being an executive assistant is really taking care of someone.”
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Jonathan Swanson and his wife conduct quarterly relationship SWOT analyses
“Every quarter, we get together, we fill out a survey in our relationship strengths and weaknesses, kind of squat analysis, geeky stuff, and then we talk about, like, what can we improve?”