The practice of decomposing any role, project, or workflow into its smallest atomic tasks before evaluating automation potential. One of the three mindset pillars in the Three M’s of AI framework.
Key points
- Works at any granularity: a YouTube channel, a client project, a role on your team [src-013]
- The decomposition reveals which sub-tasks are deterministic (fully automatable), which benefit from AI assistance, and which require human judgment [src-013]
- Example: a YouTube video is a monolith that “cannot be automated” — but broken down into ideation, scripting, packaging, description, comment replies — many chunks are independently automatable [src-013]
- Reusability: once a sub-task is automated as a skill, it can be triggered from multiple contexts [src-013]
Related concepts
- Three M’s of AI — parent framework
- Default Shift Habit — first habit
- Curiosity Rule — third habit
- Six-Step Skill Building Framework — what to do once you’ve identified a sub-task worth automating
- 60-30-10 Automation Ratio — how to allocate automation coverage across decomposed tasks
Source references
- [src-013] Nate Herk — “Build & Sell Claude Code Operating Systems (2+ Hour Course)” (2026-05-01)