Cal Newport

Well, their brain is exhausted from all this context switching.

So what problem are they looking to solve?

They're looking to avoid having to do hard moments of cognition because their brain is so fried.

It's really difficult to like solve the blank page problem.

Oh, God.

I got to send this email.

It's a blank screen.

I got to start writing from scratch.

That's really hard.

And let's throw in one other aspect in there.

Also, outside of work, we had these distraction machines in our hand that were further degrading our comfort with concentration because any possible moment of introspection we would have had even outside of work.

Why would I do that when TikTok has like the perfect dash cam video of, you know, a Karen getting punched or something like, I got to watch that, right?

And so we have that revolution comes along, plus the email revolution.

We completely atrophy our ability to think, and we exhaust our brain.

So the other aspect of it, as we talked about, it's really exhausting to go through your day context switching.

So like, I don't have any reserves left to write this PowerPoint.

That seems impossible.

And then AI is like, hey, hey, hey, hey, I can do it for you.

It'll be fine.

It'll be fine.