Working deeply with AI creates a mental crash I'm learning to navigate. Pre-AI, a solid 6-hour sesh meant 1-2 meaningful cycles of work. A cold start + a messy middle + the dopamine hit of finishing something. Done. Now I'm running 50-100 of those cycles a day. Each one has the same emotional weight: ramp up, grind through the hard part, feel the rush when it works. Repeat. That's 100x the tax on your nervous system. Huberman talks about the pain of learning - how the brain actually experiences cognitive load as discomfort. Working with AI stacks that discomfort 100 times by dinner. The end-of-day crash is real. I'm still figuring out what "deep rest" means when you've compressed a month of mental cycles into a single afternoon.

New State of Play: @weberwongwong went from writing poetry → investment banking → venture capital → NYU art school → building @floraai His take: "Current AI interfaces are biased towards slop. We're focused on creative control." One person's slop is another person's play. But pro creatives need systems, not dice rolls. Full episode out now.

This design engineer built a search engine before Perplexity. @skirano built Claud Engineer, which got him hired at Anthropic. Now he's building @MagicPathAI to support the new way of hands-on design work. He says vibe coding for design is fast food. Works great sometimes. But if you want the craft to survive, you need slow food too. New State of Play is up.