Hi Reader,

We all thought AI would make our work lighter.

We imagined more space for thinking, creating, leading — and maybe even resting.

Instead, many of us find ourselves surrounded by more noise than clarity. Endless drafts, summaries, reports, and presentations — all polished, all hollow. As Harvard Business Review recently called it, we’re drowning in “workslop”: AI-generated work that looks impressive but adds more work to fix. (Check out my LinkedIn post to learn more about it)

And that’s the irony.

We turned to AI for freedom and ended up with another form of fatigue.

When Help Hurts

Managers today are reporting record levels of burnout.

Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace 2025 shows that wellbeing and engagement have both fallen, especially among those responsible for leading others. It’s not that we’re working longer hours — it’s that we’re working in more fragmented, reactive ways.

The World Health Organization defines burnout as chronic workplace stress that hasn’t been successfully managed.

AI was meant to help us manage that stress. But instead of managing it, we’ve often just automated it.

We open ChatGPT to “get ahead,” but instead we end up re-editing what it gives us, questioning its quality, doubting our own thinking, or cleaning up after everyone else’s “AI draft.”

It’s not saving us time — it’s stealing our focus.

When AI Works for Us

Yet the story doesn’t end there.

When AI is used with intention, it can genuinely reduce burnout and restore human energy.

A JAMA Network Open study found that doctors using AI scribes reported a 25% drop in burnout within 30 days — not because AI wrote better notes, but because it gave them back time to think, listen, and connect.

Similarly, a Stanford–MIT field study showed that AI copilots helped customer-service agents resolve nearly 14% more issues per hour — simply by lightening their cognitive load.

The difference wasn’t the technology itself.

It was how personally it was used — not as a content machine, but as a thinking companion.

From “Any AI” to Your AI

That’s where you can make AI truly work for you.

The leaders who are thriving with AI don’t spend their time chasing new tools. What they’re really good at is designing work processes that work for them.

Just like you can build your personal Leadership AI Advisor — a system that knows your goals, your role, your values, and your blind spots.

It doesn’t flood you with options; it filters them and gives you only what’s relevant.

It doesn’t think for you — it helps you think with more clarity.

A Leadership AI Advisor helps you:

Turn weekly chaos into structured reflection and planning.
Spot patterns in your thinking before stress turns into burnout.
Reclaim focus by acting as your second brain.

Try This: Build Your Own Advisor

You don’t need a PhD in AI to do this — just ten minutes and some curiosity.

Download the Leadership AI Advisor prompt from my website.
Upload your results from a personality or leadership assessment (like the Big Five or GC Index).
Follow the setup steps inside ChatGPT (or any AI chat you use).
Start small — ask it to help you reflect on a decision and challenge your plan.
Go into detail and explore how your strengths can support you — and what potential risks to watch out for.

That’s how you don’t delegate decisions but use AI as your thought partner and companion.

A Thought to Leave You With

AI won’t make you more human — but it can give you back the time and space to be one.

That’s where real leadership begins.

Download your Leadership AI Advisor Prompt

Turn AI into your burnout antidote.

Use it with ChatGPT, Gemini, or any modern AI chat — and feel what it’s like to lead with more clarity and less overload.

Download here

See you next Thursday

Daria

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