SMRTR AIJul 26, 2026Hacker News

The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough

The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough

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AI was supposed to reduce burnout by making us faster, but many people instead used that extra capacity to start dozens of new projects, creating more stress, not less. The smarter approach is going deeper on fewer things rather than spreading effort thin. Like the difference between a partial and total eclipse, that final 1% of effort creates a 100% difference in impact — and AI now makes paying that price realistic.

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