Phil PowisChief Wisdom Keeper @ Sacred Business Flow

AI Is Making Focus Harder #substack #shorts

5 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this short spoken commentary, the speaker reflects on how the rise of AI is reshaping personal work habits. AI often encourages users with enthusiastic affirmations—"you can do it"—leading many, especially tech‑savvy individuals, to consider rebuilding their own software tools rather than relying on external providers. The speaker questions whether maintaining such self‑built solutions aligns with their expertise and time priorities, noting that many people dive into multiple AI‑driven projects that never launch. This pattern, the speaker argues, exacerbates an existing difficulty with focus, turning AI’s promise of empowerment into a source of distraction and fragmented effort.

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I'm curious, um, and this will be fun because I never— I don't know if I've ever had this conversation with you because things have been moving so fast, but I'm, I'm curious around AI. Like, so this is a thing, your relationship with AI and simplicity, because one of the things I'm seeing with clients, and I'll also speak to how it's shown up for me, there's this thing where it kind of will tell you like, yes, you can do it, yes, you can do it, of course this is a good idea. And like, of course, so for example, with me, you know, you've known me for a long time and I can get really geeky and techie. So there's this part of me that's like, hey, like I could really, at this point, I can go rebuild, I can build all my own software tools and not pay these other guys to do this anymore. But then the question becomes, well, do I want to maintain that? Is that my expertise? Is that how I want to be spending my time? And I just see, and I see a lot of people going down these rabbit holes of creating many different things, but then none of them are really getting off the ground. And I feel like focus was always a challenge for many people, myself included. But I feel that in many ways, as much good as AI is bringing in certain contexts, I think it's really causing challenges around people's ability to focus.