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My name is Nick. I'm actually, uh, the CEO of a, uh, tech startup. And, um, I sort of manage all of it. I'm I'm responsible for the entire business, so I have lots of different functional responsibilities. In addition to, uh, the normal household stuff. Uh, you know, car appointments, working. We got a 12 year old daughter, uh, all that stuff.

Yeah. I usually have about a thousand things going on in my head, and sometimes they're really hard because, basically, they hit me in various moments like walking the dog or don't know. I guess, you know, doing I don't know. Like, working on 1 thing and then sort of thinking, oh, I gotta make sure and eventually do this. So, like, I think probably the most stressful part of my day happens to be the the sort of, like, wind down or sort of way to transition into evening where I have a thousand things to do, I haven't quite captured them all. And I'm pretty sure there's 2 or 3 important things that I didn't get to for the day. That feels like the most stressful.

Yeah. I mean, it's probably a little bit of both. Oftentimes, there's usually follow ups, things that I've said I'm gonna do. That I haven't done yet. So, like, I'm gonna introduce this person. I'm gonna write this email. I had this conversation. I need to, but do about 30 minutes worth of work and then send that to somebody. I got a couple of good examples of just like you know, today, I'm supposed to be you know, emailing my buddy, Avin, who I'm doing a contract with at Aurora. You know, supposed to send them a a an invite or, basically, a a doc for something I did for him 2 or 3 weeks ago. He asked me about it yesterday. It's about a 10 minute ago, maybe not even, but I just have not had the time or the mental load to or the mental capacity to do it.

Mean, I think it has an impact. I think there's a a trust. Actually, my my wife earlier said she goes, like, I love you, but sometimes when I delegate something from her mental load over into mine, then it just goes poof. Right? Like, so I think that there's a really I I I'm might be a trust or competence competency assessment basis that I think others might view on me. I feel bad. I actually wanna say feel maybe even a little embarrassed when I drop those balls. And sometimes sometimes they're salient. Sometimes they're actually, like, issues. Right? There are actual things that they're actual things that that that cause problems. Like, I missed a deadline, so now there's some penalty or some angle or issue or we're behind, you know, like, there's sometimes real consequences, but I think I actually feel like sometimes I'm I don't know. Um, just letting other people and myself down on important things.

That's right. I use most mostly handle it in my head. I've tried various things over time, but oftentimes, I just sort of start and then try and get kinda organized real quickly. But then I also end up just sort of, I guess I guess you would say, like, sort of losing track. Like, it becomes stale, doesn't sort of match my world. Right? Like, it's it's sort of like, oh, these are a bunch of to dos that I'm not going to do or that they are just stale instead of, what's what's front of me and what's actually happening on the rhythm of my day.

You know, it's funny, actually. It should be more than it is, but it's because I do it all the time, I've had to almost become like, really forgiving of it. Like, I have the feeling I feel bad and sort of, like, incompetent about it. But then you know, ultimately, because it happens frequently, I can't beat myself up over it because, like, otherwise, I I know. I'd be, like, in a depressed constant anxiety state. So I guess in some ways, like, I've almost, like, accepted this shitty feeling.

Yeah. I have tried some stuff, but what what I've really found is, like, AI is really good at 1 discrete task, but isn't really good keeping track of it as a long arc. So for instance, like, you know, I can actually grab, like, project and say, what are the 5 things I should do here? And, actually, I've I've used AI to be able to create, like, especially for work stuff, like a project plan. Like, here's the project. Here's all the steps. Can you create a set of either linear tasks or or GitHub issues to be able to do it? Uh, to sort of break it down. So I have used AI to take a big problem and break it down into small ones. But I have not used any AI for sort of keeping track or managing, like, a long arc to do list

I have But 1 of the things that I think is is, like, it just is reflecting back whatever I put into the prompt or stuff. So, like, I have tried to been like, hey. Here's what I'm thinking. Here's my intentions, and it's sort of a psychophantic, like, yeah. That's great. Like, blah blah blah. Yeah. Of course. You should spend time Great. Congratulations. You're spending time on things that are important to you. But I think we're I don't see it happening is it doesn't help me understand like, my day by day and how that adds up. Like, I I really, really could not or I don't think you can actually tell if I've been walking the walk, so to speak.

Yeah. So, uh, for next steps, I end up you know, maybe if I if if the chat GPT or Claude has been able to provide me, like, you know, here's your here's your 3 or 4 next steps. Now I've kinda got a to do list. Right? So now I have to either copy and paste those somewhere else into, like, linear, GitHub issues, or, I guess, like, sort of just write them down. So, basically, where it's falling down is it's telling me the next steps and giving Mia to do, not, like, not helping me roll that forward. Right? Like, I have to now start tracking and take the next actions.

Tried superhuman, which kind of triages your inbox, and that worked pretty good. It it but it felt for the most part, it was just an email classifier. And you know, most of the tasks that require some work are gonna be, 2 or 3 steps. Right? Like, inbound, I need to check this. I need to find this, find availability, and then do something and and just didn't really work very well. So I've tried superhuman, which things in the background. I've also tried like, the AI wearables, like, meeting stuff, like meeting notes and and what else? Oh, and, like, an AI wearable. Like, I've I've used a limitless pendant And again, those things are actually really kinda helpful because they they literally pop up things that I'm supposed to do. But, again, they just created a to do that just is sitting on my phone. Rather than someplace that I can start to take action with or that something is working on my behalf.