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ai didn't reduce the workload. it removed the excuse to stop.
a silicon valley therapist says 99% of his clients - founders, execs, high performers — name burnout as their #1 problem. and lately it's a specific kind: AI burnout.
not from AI doing too much. from AI never signaling you're done.
no fatigue. no "let's pick this up tomorrow." no natural stopping point. just capacity that keeps offering itself, and you keep taking it.
the tool doesn't have a limit. you do. that's the whole problem.
if you're running 5 projects at once because AI made it possible - possible isn't the same as sustainable :))
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I've been sending a lot of outreach messages lately as part of my job search, and pretty quickly ran into the same wall every time.
Writing a good, personalized message was never the problem. The problem was everything before it: finding the right contact, pulling context on the role or company, checking if I'd already reached out, then logging it somewhere so I wouldn't lose track.
There was a lot of repetitive work standing between me and writing the message itself.
So I started building a small dashboard (React, Vite, deployed on Vercel) to handle the deterministic stuff. It looks up contacts, pulls the context I need, and tracks everything in Notion automatically. I pretty much just do the writing.
Still early and still just for me, but it's already saved a chunk of time I used to burn on busywork instead of actually reaching out to people.
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Building your own dashboard to kill the repetitive lookup work instead of just grinding through it manually says a lot. Did you set out planning to build something, or did the busywork hit a point where vibe-coding a fix felt faster than doing the research by hand one more time?
nunu — Botanical Skincare Art Direction
🌿 Art direction for nunu, a quiet botanical skincare brand built around natural oils, skin texture, soft rituals, and calm visual storytelling.
As part of the visual exploration, I created a series of campaign-style compositions combining product imagery, botanical details, minimal typography, skin close-ups, and soft green tones to shape a tactile, premium skincare world.
Love thissss!
