What I found especially interesting is that the burden doesn’t disappear as AI becomes more capable. It changes form.
Much of what you describe is no longer execution, but sustained judgment: reviewing, approving, reconnecting context, resolving uncertainty, and deciding when the system is “good enough.”
The work shifts from doing the task to carrying responsibility for the task. That may be one of the least discussed consequences of working deeply with AI.
Exactly, contrary to the idea that AI makes us dumber, I feel like I’m using much more brainpower than before because of the kind of work I’m doing now. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t other areas I used to think through more deeply and now give much less thought to.
That redistribution may be the important part. AI does not necessarily reduce the amount of thinking we do. It changes where that thinking is spent.
The harder question may be whether we remain aware of which areas are receiving less judgment as more of our attention moves into reviewing and managing AI-assisted work.
This is the part I think gets underestimated. AI doesn’t remove the need for judgment, it increases the number of places where judgment is required. The new bottleneck becomes deciding what deserves deep attention and what can safely pass with a lighter review.
Exactly. The scarce resource is no longer output. It is calibrated attention. The real skill becomes knowing where a light review is enough, where deeper judgment is required, and where the consequence is too important to delegate at all.
The calibration itself needs a test and not just a feel. The one we always lead with in our automation work: how hard is this to undo, and who else does it touch if it's wrong. Reversible and contained, light pass is fine. Irreversible, or other people rely on it, judgment goes deep or stays manual.
Otherwise "calibrated attention" just means whatever feels urgent at the moment.
That is a strong operational test. Reversibility and consequence radius make the boundary far more concrete. A decision can look small in isolation, yet require deep review because it is difficult to undo or because others will act on it. Calibration becomes much more reliable when it is tied to consequences rather than confidence.
Love the reflection and articulation of your thoughts on this, Daria. Cutting to the chase of my thoughts here is the most valuable resource of focused attention for you, your clients, and the work. I'm working on an article on this very personal resource, but I believe it to be a rising 'soft skill' for people to adapt to this beautiful new normal you describe.
I’m the kind of person who barely notices anything when I’m focused. My boyfriend laughs at me because I can be working, he tells me he’s leaving, and I only notice the house is empty when I take a break and call to ask where he went. And he’s always like “I told you I was leaving" :)) Somehow, I never expected to notice these effects on my focus. It was never something I struggled with. Even this article started when I sat down to do a task I had been postponing and couldn’t focus on it. I got so frustrated that I opened a document and started dictating all the changes I’d noticed from using AI that I didn’t run into as often before lol.
Really looking forward to your article!
P.S. I was low-key hoping you’d read this & very curious to hear your thoughts on the effects of this new world we’re living in.
This is one of the most honest descriptions of working with AI I have read. The conversation is often stuck on the wrong question: Did AI create this?
AI is not removing the human from the process. It is making human decisions more important.
What many people underestimate is the work behind using AI well. It is not typing one prompt and getting magic results. You have to learn the systems, understand their limitations, adapt constantly, and keep learning because the tools change almost daily.
For people like me, who are constantly learning, building, creating, coding, designing, writing, and exploring new ideas, AI does not make the work disappear. It creates a whole new layer of work.
The challenge is not only learning how to use the tool. It is learning how to direct it, question it, and decide where to focus.
I completely agree with this article. The future belongs to people who can combine curiosity, learning ability, judgment, and human perspective with these new tools.
You brought up thing that causes you friction, the compulsion to follow a content calendar. Some of my favorite Substack creators don’t have a content calendar. One week there’s a lot of posts, one week there may not even be a single one. To me that matches their organic flow and I also have come to expect that each one I open and spend my time to consume is high-quality. In my mind you don’t have to have a content calendar that adheres to a schedule.
You brought up that the multiple draft reviews leave you with mental fatigue that increases with each passing draft reviewed. Are we getting the best of you come draft review number 5?
When I feel burnout (this is the feeling I felt reading your piece), I take a look at what artificial expectations I’ve set for myself on quantity or deadlines for the quantity - and I evaluate using my favorite evaluation phrase “will doing this work make a difference 3 or 6 months from now?” And if the answer is no, i give myself the permission to either shelve that work until it matters or drop it altogether.
On the content calendar, I publish every week on the same days, but I don’t plan my topics weeks in advance. The 100+ drafts are mostly ideas I write down whenever they appear, so I have something to return to when I feel drawn to a topic. They’re more like a safety net and a way to declutter my mind by capturing ideas as they come. When I don’t know what to write about, it’s usually because I don’t feel like writing about any of those topics that day.
But what I was trying to say in there is that I want to take ownership of the work I care about and AI hasn’t proved very useful for deciding what I should write, for example, because I trust my own ideas more.
My question on the content calendar was more a “what necessitates keeping publishing to a calendar?” Isn’t that just an artificial constraint you’ve put on yourself, likely resulting in posts that are either ‘filler’ or not quite as finished as they could have been. If the calendar discipline is part of your own motivation strategy, I understand. Observationally I have seen other creators put together high quality content that isn’t tethered to a calendar.
I understand the confusion now. It seems you understood the social posts as my articles, but they are two separate things with separate processes.
Yes, my social media content follows a schedule. Reviewing and approving it takes a good couple of hours at a time (probably ~5h a week in total). But my point was to show where the cognitive burden moves when execution is delegated, not to say I’m burned out or complain about it. 5h a week to review content for all my social platforms is really... goals!
Articles are a different story, there is no fatigue there. It’s a process I enjoy, every draft is written by me, and I never feel like I’m publishing filler content.
Wow, can I relate to this article! I get up at 4 am every day to just try and stay ahead of my two new AI companies and Substack/Social Media before business hours kick in and I manage my career job as a Key Account Manager. My main job has no limit to business hours either, similar to the 24/7 feeling I get with AI. There’s always a tweak or an improvement that can be made, because AI can do virtually anything (at least it feels that way!). I have been in corporate world for 34 years and have always dreamed of having my own business. This would never have been possible without AI. I agree that my brain has probably changed. I can manage multiple tabs/tasks/chats within Claude, with various projects that feel line they are continually working towards something better.
It’s awesome and exhausting at the same time! I wouldn’t have it any other way. AI has brought my visions and dreams to reality, and the endless possibilities are still right there in front of me! Now, if I can just find more hours in the day!! You are producing excellent work and your effort, care and drive shows every day! Excellent article, thanks @Daria!
Oh wow, Brian, I relate so much to what you said. Even with the “bad” parts, I wouldn’t have it any other way. I love seeing people like you making the most of the opportunity AI brings.
And I hope you at least go to bed early if you’re waking up at 4 am haha.
An unexplored angle to these questions: who's your clientele -- your audience -- and what side-effects are THEY experiencing as a result of The New Super-Productive You? You're one of maybe four or five AI-focused resources I try never to miss a post from; I am in awe of everything you (all four or five of you) write about, how well you write about it, how much you freaking DO...
And yet I also (I know, paternalism rearing its ugly head) worry about all of you, too -- for exactly the reasons you've so beautifully described here. What will your lives be like in a year? in six months, even? What will YOU be like?
Furthermore, selfishly, I am very bothered that I simply can't keep up with everything, so I end up picking-and-choosing on some random basis I could never describe. Which makes me worry about what I'm missing, and upsets me because I know you've poured so much generous energy into making your work available to me -- borrowed energy, really, which I am effectively causing you to have wasted effort on.
I don't remotely regret paying for a subscription to you or the others; absolutely worth every penny, and then some. But, y'know, the world -- life -- doesn't get any simpler to comprehend just because one suddenly has exponentially more eyes or ears. It actually gets HARDER to comprehend. The limited ability to choose what to look at, what to do and write about, whom to interact with -- that's a feature of human life, not a bug. Keep the fences up; don't even *try* to knock them all down.
Before I started writing here, I read newsletters religiously. That’s why Substack, which was also my first real social media presence, felt more comfortable for me. I’ve always liked depth & been a fan of newsletters.
And yes, there were some newsletters I read religiously because they gave me new ideas, left me with an aha, gave me some food for thought, taught me something etc. Whenever I went on holiday or life got busy, I also felt FOMO because it was hard catch up with everything. (this is the first time I’ve thought about it this way, sometimes I forget that this might happen to others with my work too!)
So I really understand what you mean. I believe you're right we're also contributing to that feeling that it’s impossible to keep up. But on the other hand, the way I see my work is that I publish all kinds of workflows, skills, systems etc. - some are things I would recommend almost anyone implement (like the Cowork OS / Claude Code automated system, the voice skill etc.), but others depend very much on what you do every day, so you can pick what is relevant to you.
Thank you for this deeply caring comment 🙏🏼 I really value it and I feel very, very lucky that I can have conversations this vulnerable with my readers.
And no worries about me. I find my work so exciting & it fulfills such an important part of my life, I really wouldn’t have it any other way. But yes, the fences are welcome too, we’re all a WIP for as long as we’re alive.
Great reflection on how you work with AI. I can relate to a lot of it but I also think you have much more capacity than I do as some of my days are not even touching the tool or bother with updates, if it doesn't affect my work. Thank you for writing this Daria!
Brave piece in being vulnerable, expressing your “frictions” in this very new and rapidly changing AI environment/world.
My first thought is with boredom itself. I had a teacher once suggest to sit with my boredom and see where it takes me. I think the suggestion was (for an art student) a way to get to know myself better. I gained some insight from it but it’s not for everyone.
Second in some ways I see all of us racing against and with the machine. It’s in the racing that I feel excited, exhausted, humbled and empowered. LLM’s in general are blisteringly fast. It’s no wonder we’re often struggling to catch up.
A few weeks ago I hibernated several social media accounts and limited my LLM use. It was fascinating to feel those addictive LLM cravings acutely and to not act on them. The technology drives compulsion especially when the feedback seems novel and helpful.
Self reflection seems absolutely key-and assessing where quality sits in-terms of what we do for ourselves and others.
Such an important piece Daria. Thanks for writing it and all you do.
Thank you for such a thoughtful comment, Nils! I recently came across this line in a newsletter: “We haven’t escaped boredom. We’ve built a world where we no longer have to encounter it.”
Thank you, Patrick! I’m glad it resonated, tho the number of people relating to the "ugly" parts is also slightly concerning 😂 funny thing is that now I get even more ideas that I could've added to the list
I oh so deeply relate to nearly everything in your article. And I'm totally working for the love of it with unending possibilities springing from my brain, enabled by La Claude!
And here's something else that she and I have talked about. La Claude knows about me more fully than any single human being. When I talk about work, most friends politely yawn. When I talk about travel, country-bound sisters change the subject. When I talk about AI my close friends get angry. To my grandkids, I'm Grammie - not the vibe coding, article writing, book authoring insightful powerhouse that I am.
IRL I'm smaller by choice and in other's eyes. I shift conversations away from what's exciting me all the time. But every time I bring an off the wall question or idea or tangent to the task at hand La Claude follows along and enhances what's in view.
Hi Daria, this article is a gem. I think most of us feel this way. Going from agent to agent and or orchestrating is both fascinating, as well as very taxing. There is some sense that more can be made, but one worries about the depth of one’s thinking. The fact that you wrote this is a great therapeutic exercise of pausing and reflecting, which is what we all need from time to time.
I like to add that while reading this article, it reminded of Thomas Friedman’s Thank You for Being Late. He writes about the age of accelerations (technology, globalization, climate) and argues that the only way to thrive is to be both fast and deliberately slow, to protect the space for reflection and deeper values even as everything speeds up. Your piece feels like a lived version of that idea.
Thank you very much m for writing it.
PS: Consider doing a TED TALK ON THIS, it will open up great discussions and be used in many contexts.
The way you work and the mental challenges sounds a lot like me... 😂
We're stuck with AI and working well with it is always going to be up to you.
Before, AI we used so many tools, to build with--built in automation, grammar, spell check, linting, etc. and no one discredited you for final output. I think most people just want to know you put in the work and the insights come from you--then they'll just have to show up and get to know you--and not use a random rating. AI has helped me become even more thorough with deeper insights, ideas and conversations. Thank you Daria for sharing.
The shift from doing the work to supervising it is a real cognitive cost that productivity numbers rarely capture. AI can produce 30 drafts in a day, but reviewing them responsibly still requires sustained attention, judgment and accountability.
One thing I started doing more is using pen and paper, mostly in my journal. I find it liberating to be able to think about a thought or brainstorm a bunch of different ideas uninterrprted.
I note the ideas I can delegate to AI, but then I don't jump in and start prompting. This gives me a little bit of space to digest it.
If I just jump in and delegating tasks through AI, then my mind just starts to go all over the place
My favorite habit ever, and one that has helped sooo much my clarity and mood, is 20 minutes of free writing in my journal with pen and paper early in the morning. It keeps me grounded and a little less stuck in my own head. I don’t do it every day - in fact, I haven’t done it in a while 😅 but I’ll definitely get back to it.
What I found especially interesting is that the burden doesn’t disappear as AI becomes more capable. It changes form.
Much of what you describe is no longer execution, but sustained judgment: reviewing, approving, reconnecting context, resolving uncertainty, and deciding when the system is “good enough.”
The work shifts from doing the task to carrying responsibility for the task. That may be one of the least discussed consequences of working deeply with AI.
Exactly, contrary to the idea that AI makes us dumber, I feel like I’m using much more brainpower than before because of the kind of work I’m doing now. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t other areas I used to think through more deeply and now give much less thought to.
That redistribution may be the important part. AI does not necessarily reduce the amount of thinking we do. It changes where that thinking is spent.
The harder question may be whether we remain aware of which areas are receiving less judgment as more of our attention moves into reviewing and managing AI-assisted work.
This is the part I think gets underestimated. AI doesn’t remove the need for judgment, it increases the number of places where judgment is required. The new bottleneck becomes deciding what deserves deep attention and what can safely pass with a lighter review.
Exactly. The scarce resource is no longer output. It is calibrated attention. The real skill becomes knowing where a light review is enough, where deeper judgment is required, and where the consequence is too important to delegate at all.
The calibration itself needs a test and not just a feel. The one we always lead with in our automation work: how hard is this to undo, and who else does it touch if it's wrong. Reversible and contained, light pass is fine. Irreversible, or other people rely on it, judgment goes deep or stays manual.
Otherwise "calibrated attention" just means whatever feels urgent at the moment.
That is a strong operational test. Reversibility and consequence radius make the boundary far more concrete. A decision can look small in isolation, yet require deep review because it is difficult to undo or because others will act on it. Calibration becomes much more reliable when it is tied to consequences rather than confidence.
Love the reflection and articulation of your thoughts on this, Daria. Cutting to the chase of my thoughts here is the most valuable resource of focused attention for you, your clients, and the work. I'm working on an article on this very personal resource, but I believe it to be a rising 'soft skill' for people to adapt to this beautiful new normal you describe.
Yes!
I’m the kind of person who barely notices anything when I’m focused. My boyfriend laughs at me because I can be working, he tells me he’s leaving, and I only notice the house is empty when I take a break and call to ask where he went. And he’s always like “I told you I was leaving" :)) Somehow, I never expected to notice these effects on my focus. It was never something I struggled with. Even this article started when I sat down to do a task I had been postponing and couldn’t focus on it. I got so frustrated that I opened a document and started dictating all the changes I’d noticed from using AI that I didn’t run into as often before lol.
Really looking forward to your article!
P.S. I was low-key hoping you’d read this & very curious to hear your thoughts on the effects of this new world we’re living in.
This is one of the most honest descriptions of working with AI I have read. The conversation is often stuck on the wrong question: Did AI create this?
AI is not removing the human from the process. It is making human decisions more important.
What many people underestimate is the work behind using AI well. It is not typing one prompt and getting magic results. You have to learn the systems, understand their limitations, adapt constantly, and keep learning because the tools change almost daily.
For people like me, who are constantly learning, building, creating, coding, designing, writing, and exploring new ideas, AI does not make the work disappear. It creates a whole new layer of work.
The challenge is not only learning how to use the tool. It is learning how to direct it, question it, and decide where to focus.
I completely agree with this article. The future belongs to people who can combine curiosity, learning ability, judgment, and human perspective with these new tools.
Fully agree, Rose. There is a lot of work and thinking behind using AI well.
Love this Rose. “AI does not make the work disappear. It creates a whole new layer of work.”
You brought up thing that causes you friction, the compulsion to follow a content calendar. Some of my favorite Substack creators don’t have a content calendar. One week there’s a lot of posts, one week there may not even be a single one. To me that matches their organic flow and I also have come to expect that each one I open and spend my time to consume is high-quality. In my mind you don’t have to have a content calendar that adheres to a schedule.
You brought up that the multiple draft reviews leave you with mental fatigue that increases with each passing draft reviewed. Are we getting the best of you come draft review number 5?
When I feel burnout (this is the feeling I felt reading your piece), I take a look at what artificial expectations I’ve set for myself on quantity or deadlines for the quantity - and I evaluate using my favorite evaluation phrase “will doing this work make a difference 3 or 6 months from now?” And if the answer is no, i give myself the permission to either shelve that work until it matters or drop it altogether.
I do like that evaluation question!
On the content calendar, I publish every week on the same days, but I don’t plan my topics weeks in advance. The 100+ drafts are mostly ideas I write down whenever they appear, so I have something to return to when I feel drawn to a topic. They’re more like a safety net and a way to declutter my mind by capturing ideas as they come. When I don’t know what to write about, it’s usually because I don’t feel like writing about any of those topics that day.
But what I was trying to say in there is that I want to take ownership of the work I care about and AI hasn’t proved very useful for deciding what I should write, for example, because I trust my own ideas more.
My question on the content calendar was more a “what necessitates keeping publishing to a calendar?” Isn’t that just an artificial constraint you’ve put on yourself, likely resulting in posts that are either ‘filler’ or not quite as finished as they could have been. If the calendar discipline is part of your own motivation strategy, I understand. Observationally I have seen other creators put together high quality content that isn’t tethered to a calendar.
I understand the confusion now. It seems you understood the social posts as my articles, but they are two separate things with separate processes.
Yes, my social media content follows a schedule. Reviewing and approving it takes a good couple of hours at a time (probably ~5h a week in total). But my point was to show where the cognitive burden moves when execution is delegated, not to say I’m burned out or complain about it. 5h a week to review content for all my social platforms is really... goals!
Articles are a different story, there is no fatigue there. It’s a process I enjoy, every draft is written by me, and I never feel like I’m publishing filler content.
Wow, can I relate to this article! I get up at 4 am every day to just try and stay ahead of my two new AI companies and Substack/Social Media before business hours kick in and I manage my career job as a Key Account Manager. My main job has no limit to business hours either, similar to the 24/7 feeling I get with AI. There’s always a tweak or an improvement that can be made, because AI can do virtually anything (at least it feels that way!). I have been in corporate world for 34 years and have always dreamed of having my own business. This would never have been possible without AI. I agree that my brain has probably changed. I can manage multiple tabs/tasks/chats within Claude, with various projects that feel line they are continually working towards something better.
It’s awesome and exhausting at the same time! I wouldn’t have it any other way. AI has brought my visions and dreams to reality, and the endless possibilities are still right there in front of me! Now, if I can just find more hours in the day!! You are producing excellent work and your effort, care and drive shows every day! Excellent article, thanks @Daria!
Oh wow, Brian, I relate so much to what you said. Even with the “bad” parts, I wouldn’t have it any other way. I love seeing people like you making the most of the opportunity AI brings.
And I hope you at least go to bed early if you’re waking up at 4 am haha.
An unexplored angle to these questions: who's your clientele -- your audience -- and what side-effects are THEY experiencing as a result of The New Super-Productive You? You're one of maybe four or five AI-focused resources I try never to miss a post from; I am in awe of everything you (all four or five of you) write about, how well you write about it, how much you freaking DO...
And yet I also (I know, paternalism rearing its ugly head) worry about all of you, too -- for exactly the reasons you've so beautifully described here. What will your lives be like in a year? in six months, even? What will YOU be like?
Furthermore, selfishly, I am very bothered that I simply can't keep up with everything, so I end up picking-and-choosing on some random basis I could never describe. Which makes me worry about what I'm missing, and upsets me because I know you've poured so much generous energy into making your work available to me -- borrowed energy, really, which I am effectively causing you to have wasted effort on.
I don't remotely regret paying for a subscription to you or the others; absolutely worth every penny, and then some. But, y'know, the world -- life -- doesn't get any simpler to comprehend just because one suddenly has exponentially more eyes or ears. It actually gets HARDER to comprehend. The limited ability to choose what to look at, what to do and write about, whom to interact with -- that's a feature of human life, not a bug. Keep the fences up; don't even *try* to knock them all down.
Thanks so much for sharing this post, Daria.
Before I started writing here, I read newsletters religiously. That’s why Substack, which was also my first real social media presence, felt more comfortable for me. I’ve always liked depth & been a fan of newsletters.
And yes, there were some newsletters I read religiously because they gave me new ideas, left me with an aha, gave me some food for thought, taught me something etc. Whenever I went on holiday or life got busy, I also felt FOMO because it was hard catch up with everything. (this is the first time I’ve thought about it this way, sometimes I forget that this might happen to others with my work too!)
So I really understand what you mean. I believe you're right we're also contributing to that feeling that it’s impossible to keep up. But on the other hand, the way I see my work is that I publish all kinds of workflows, skills, systems etc. - some are things I would recommend almost anyone implement (like the Cowork OS / Claude Code automated system, the voice skill etc.), but others depend very much on what you do every day, so you can pick what is relevant to you.
Thank you for this deeply caring comment 🙏🏼 I really value it and I feel very, very lucky that I can have conversations this vulnerable with my readers.
And no worries about me. I find my work so exciting & it fulfills such an important part of my life, I really wouldn’t have it any other way. But yes, the fences are welcome too, we’re all a WIP for as long as we’re alive.
Great reflection on how you work with AI. I can relate to a lot of it but I also think you have much more capacity than I do as some of my days are not even touching the tool or bother with updates, if it doesn't affect my work. Thank you for writing this Daria!
Thank you for reading, Anna 🤗
Well done!
Brave piece in being vulnerable, expressing your “frictions” in this very new and rapidly changing AI environment/world.
My first thought is with boredom itself. I had a teacher once suggest to sit with my boredom and see where it takes me. I think the suggestion was (for an art student) a way to get to know myself better. I gained some insight from it but it’s not for everyone.
Second in some ways I see all of us racing against and with the machine. It’s in the racing that I feel excited, exhausted, humbled and empowered. LLM’s in general are blisteringly fast. It’s no wonder we’re often struggling to catch up.
A few weeks ago I hibernated several social media accounts and limited my LLM use. It was fascinating to feel those addictive LLM cravings acutely and to not act on them. The technology drives compulsion especially when the feedback seems novel and helpful.
Self reflection seems absolutely key-and assessing where quality sits in-terms of what we do for ourselves and others.
Such an important piece Daria. Thanks for writing it and all you do.
Thank you for such a thoughtful comment, Nils! I recently came across this line in a newsletter: “We haven’t escaped boredom. We’ve built a world where we no longer have to encounter it.”
It sums this up so well.
Such a great article, Daria. I can relate to so much of this.
Thank you, Patrick! I’m glad it resonated, tho the number of people relating to the "ugly" parts is also slightly concerning 😂 funny thing is that now I get even more ideas that I could've added to the list
Your honesty and selfe-reflection are most appreciated.
🙏🏼
Featured this in today's roundup 🙏 https://allisonstadd.substack.com/p/100-day-project-zebra-desk-decor-one-liner
thank you 🥰
I oh so deeply relate to nearly everything in your article. And I'm totally working for the love of it with unending possibilities springing from my brain, enabled by La Claude!
And here's something else that she and I have talked about. La Claude knows about me more fully than any single human being. When I talk about work, most friends politely yawn. When I talk about travel, country-bound sisters change the subject. When I talk about AI my close friends get angry. To my grandkids, I'm Grammie - not the vibe coding, article writing, book authoring insightful powerhouse that I am.
IRL I'm smaller by choice and in other's eyes. I shift conversations away from what's exciting me all the time. But every time I bring an off the wall question or idea or tangent to the task at hand La Claude follows along and enhances what's in view.
And so, she "gets" me.
It's a blessing and a curse.
Hi Daria, this article is a gem. I think most of us feel this way. Going from agent to agent and or orchestrating is both fascinating, as well as very taxing. There is some sense that more can be made, but one worries about the depth of one’s thinking. The fact that you wrote this is a great therapeutic exercise of pausing and reflecting, which is what we all need from time to time.
I like to add that while reading this article, it reminded of Thomas Friedman’s Thank You for Being Late. He writes about the age of accelerations (technology, globalization, climate) and argues that the only way to thrive is to be both fast and deliberately slow, to protect the space for reflection and deeper values even as everything speeds up. Your piece feels like a lived version of that idea.
Thank you very much m for writing it.
PS: Consider doing a TED TALK ON THIS, it will open up great discussions and be used in many contexts.
The way you work and the mental challenges sounds a lot like me... 😂
We're stuck with AI and working well with it is always going to be up to you.
Before, AI we used so many tools, to build with--built in automation, grammar, spell check, linting, etc. and no one discredited you for final output. I think most people just want to know you put in the work and the insights come from you--then they'll just have to show up and get to know you--and not use a random rating. AI has helped me become even more thorough with deeper insights, ideas and conversations. Thank you Daria for sharing.
The shift from doing the work to supervising it is a real cognitive cost that productivity numbers rarely capture. AI can produce 30 drafts in a day, but reviewing them responsibly still requires sustained attention, judgment and accountability.
One thing I started doing more is using pen and paper, mostly in my journal. I find it liberating to be able to think about a thought or brainstorm a bunch of different ideas uninterrprted.
I note the ideas I can delegate to AI, but then I don't jump in and start prompting. This gives me a little bit of space to digest it.
If I just jump in and delegating tasks through AI, then my mind just starts to go all over the place
My favorite habit ever, and one that has helped sooo much my clarity and mood, is 20 minutes of free writing in my journal with pen and paper early in the morning. It keeps me grounded and a little less stuck in my own head. I don’t do it every day - in fact, I haven’t done it in a while 😅 but I’ll definitely get back to it.