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What's the smallest thing you handed off that saved you the most time?
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May energy: ambitious plans, shorter attention spans.
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Half the meeting is figuring out what the last meeting decided.
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Rewriting the proposal for the third time at 11 PM hits different.
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AI is supposed to save time, but is that your experience? @HarvardBiz calls it "AI brain fry." And 77% of workers say AI is adding to their workload. Yet freelancers who control how they use AI report something different: 90% say it helps them learn faster, 88% say it's boosted their careers. So, what's AI actually doing for you?
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What's one project sitting in your "someday" folder right now?
0% That biz idea I’ll start
60% A passion project
20% Started… then stopped
20% It’s a graveyard
5 votes • Final results
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The out-of-office is written. The anxiety handoff doc is not.
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Someone is currently writing "per my last email" with their whole chest.
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Three tabs open: the project, the brief, and the brief the brief should've been.
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4,538
My calendar and my to-do list have never met.
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4,813
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Me and ChatGPT climbing the corporate ladder #MetGala
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Me after my 23rd revision #MetGala
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Outsource the thing you Googled twice.
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Most to-do lists are just guilt with bullet points.
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What's one process on your team that still runs on vibes?
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Bandwidth is a lie we tell calendars.
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"Let me just check one thing" - me, 90 minutes ago.
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Small teams move fast until nobody knows who owns what.
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Every "simple rebrand" is 47 Figma files deep.
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