On this episode of Focused, Mike and I look at how AI becomes a distraction precisely because it feels like work. We cover tool tourism, infinite collaboration, system procrastination, cognitive debt, and authority drift, then set a few boundaries that keep the robot useful without surrendering your focus.
Episode Links
- Watch this episode on YouTube
- Mike’s Personal Retreat course
- Robot Assistant Field Guide
- Cal Newport’s Deep Questions podcast
- Mike’s Obsidian Quick Capture app
- Keychron K2 HE
- TOYO STEEL cantilever toolboxes
- You Can Just Do Things by Cate Hall
- Dying Every Day by James Romm
- Bookworm
- Elgato Prompter XL
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Written by David Sparks
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