2 posts tagged with "focus"

Using AI is fine. Using it to replace your thinking isn't.

There's a version of AI adoption that looks like efficiency and is actually absence. You've stopped being the person doing the work. You've become the person approving outputs. The strange part is how good it feels while it's happening. The work gets faster, the results look competent, and nobody notices, including you, until the day you need the skill the tool was quietly doing on your behalf.

The most productive three hours of my week look suspicious from the outside. No meetings, no Slack, headphones in, do not disturb. From the inside, it's the only time I'm actually working.

I don't mean "actually working" as a knock on everything else. I mean it's the only time my brain is in the state where hard problems get solved, where the architecture makes sense, where I stop fighting friction and start making progress. Getting there, for an ADHD brain, is not as simple as closing your email client.