Julie Chenell compares AI overwhelm to lottery winners who flounder without constraints. She imposes boundaries: only using AI for serious problems, plus one scheduled play day weekly to prevent burnout and keep focus.
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If you feel like AI is taking up all your time and making it hard to concentrate, you're not alone. We are finally in a time where things that we used to not be able to do, we can do. And with those constraints gone, it's very easy to feel like total paralysis about, well, what do I do now? Like, I could do that, I could do that, I could do that. The opportunity is, is honestly crippling. And this happens very often for people who come into financial wealth because they now no longer have the reason I can't afford it as to not to do something. And so with that constraint gone, they often flounder, right? This is what happens when people win the lottery. If this is you right now in AI, you need to create your own boundaries and constraints. For me, I don't play with AI unless I have attached it to a severe problem I have that I need to solve right now. Then I have permission to play. And then one day a week, I get to just try AI and do something fun. That is the only way that I can stay on task and not burn my brain with dopamine.