Word. I got cooked too, but then put a dent in it. Sleep is back, exercise is back, brain is in a better place.
We all grew up with doer brain. Write the proposal, draft the email, ship the function. When the task closes, the loop closes, the body gets “we’re done.”
Reviewer brain has no natural close. Reviewing AI work ends when you decide it’s good enough, and you can always defer the decision. We all keep prompting and prompting. Multiply that by 100 micro-decisions a day, and your nervous system never gets the signal it's been trained to wait for. The “we’re done” loop doesn’t close naturally.
Then there’s output vs capacity. Output has 10X’d for everyone, yay thanks robots. Capacity is something else. Capacity is how much cognitive load your nervous system can carry before recovery fails. Sleep, recovery, energy, etc. We’ve beautifully scaled output without touching capacity.
Humans are human, after all. Just a blob of meat. If you pretend to be a machine, you’ll crash. I sure did.
If your output is up and your evenings are gone, that's the signal. The system is overdrawn. Back to basics: app to auto shutdown laptop at a reasonable hour, get to bed, get good sleep, do the shit our biology needs so you can function properly.
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