AI has made information easy, but it has not made decisions simple. As machines produce more than we can read, our job is shifting from building knowledge to owning decisions. Are we ready?In a 2025 survey by BetterUp Labs and the Stanford Social Media Lab, 40% of US desk workers said they had received workslop in the previous month: AI-generated work that looks polished but does not move the task forward. Respondents reported spending nearly two hours, on average, dealing with each incident.Imagine a team of ten, each receiving one piece of workslop a month. That is roughly 20 hours, more than two working days, spent cleaning up someone else’s shortcut.We have never produced so much data, so many documents, decks and summaries. And we have never produced so much digital waste.This is a productivity problem, but it is also a symptom.The question is not how much faster we can produce...