Do you ever feel like half your brain is just repeating itself all day?

Serious question.

Between:

  • Re-explaining decisions
  • Answering the same questions on email/Slack
  • Sitting in meetings that could’ve been summarized
  • Remembering follow-ups you already thought about

It feels like a lot of cognitive waste.

Not hard work — just repetitive thinking.

How do you currently deal with this?

  • Systems?
  • Assistants?
  • Just brute force?

Trying to understand whether this is a personal failure… or a tooling failure.

Posted Feb 28, 2026, 1:14 PM UTC

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