The PDA Stack
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Module 4: The PDA Stack
Prompt, delegate, and automate aren’t separate practices you switch between. They’re layers in a stack, and most real workflows use all three.
Here’s how they interact in practice:
You prompt to establish context and handle one-off tasks that require your judgement. You delegate by handing repeatable multi-step work to skills and agents so you’re reviewing outputs rather than producing them from scratch. You automate the things that don’t need you at all — moving them off your attention entirely and into scheduled or triggered processes.
A piece of writing, for example, might move through all three: you write a brief and context notes (prompt), the content pipeline drafts and reviews it (delegate), the review output lands in a folder you check each morning (automate the delivery, not the content itself). Your involvement is bookended at the beginning and end, with the middle handled by the stack.