What's the AI task you've been avoiding?

Not the one you tell people you're "going to get to." The actual one. The thing you keep rationalizing away because you don't quite know how to start, or you tried once and it was a mess, or you secretly think AI can't actually help with that thing.

No judgment. I want to know what's hard.

I'll go first:

For me it was my daily briefing — specifically the dispatch board, the piece that's supposed to streamline everything.

I built the cognitive architecture for it. But every morning I'd open it and feel overwhelmed.

This morning I finally saw why: each item on the board was missing the context I needed to actually start. The apprehension wasn't about AI capability. It was my cognitive load walking into a context-less list.

Fix was simple once I named it. I had my chief of staff pull the context per item before I open the board.

Capability was never the problem. Clarity was.

Drop yours below. We'll workshop a few in the comments through the end of the week.

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