CIRCLE WITH A DOT

(Continued from Hard Change) Change is hard. The one thing you never really understand the gravitas of until it body...Check out my weekday daily #blog and read more in my post: Hard Change, two#Blog #Burnout #CareerChangehttps://8clicks.8r4d.com/2026/04/hard-change-two/

There's a lot in this fantastic article by Ky Decker - which is hitting a little close to home right now. I've worked with data for 8+ years now, I know my way around ML models - and I don't recognize #tech anymore. ---> A team lead adds an AI chatbot to a Slack channel. Anyone can tag the bot to answer questions about the company’s products. Coworkers tag the chatbot many times a day. You never see someone check that the bot’s responses are correct.> Documents and code are being generated faster than team members can review. You get the feeling that most people have stopped reading altogether.> Organization leadership has mandated that each person adopt new AI tools to “uplevel” themselves and their team.https://ky.fyi/posts/ai-burnout#genAI #burnout #chatbots

AI was supposed to make us work less. Instead, it's making us work more.An 8-month UC Berkeley study found: AI tools don't reduce workload, they intensify it. Workers took on more tasks, blurred work/life boundaries, and juggled more threads than ever.Nobody asked them to. AI just made "doing more" feel possible. Until burnout hit.The fix isn't more tools. It's more discipline around the tools we have.https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it#AI #FutureOfWork #Productivity #Burnout

I wrote about this pattern, and others, in a book called Wired to Burn. The hardest part wasn't the clinical content. It was admitting I'd lived inside the same cycle myself.The instinct to perform wellness is so deep that even the person writing the book about it almost cut the section where she said so.If this resonates: a.co/d/0hY7wCha#Burnout #MentalHealth #Therapy #ExecutiveBurnout #HighAchievers