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Is It “Spring Fatigue” Or AI Frying Your Brain?

Huibert Evekink — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:19:25 GMT

Why do I feel so depleted lately? I wondered whether it was just spring fatigue, a bit of age, or bad sleep.

The Two Ai Walls

Huibert Evekink — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:05:22 GMT

A couple of weeks ago, I explored how AI intensifies work rather than reducing it—and why partial solutions create the problems they’re meant to solve. This week, we’re focusing on one of the six interconnected capabilities that determine whether that intensification makes you smarter or just busier: expertise.

The timing is perfect. Harvard Business Review, in its March 2026 issue article, "Gen AI won’t make your employees experts," supports what we see every day: AI runs into limits when expertise is missing or becomes rigid.

The Door That Wasn't There

Huibert Evekink — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:26:59 GMT

For the past few years, I have been trying to build things with AI. Custom ChatGPTs. Basic vibe coding experiments. Small automations that half-worked and taught me a lot anyway.

I always described vibe coding for non-techies as communicating with someone who speaks a different language using your phone as a translator. It works until the other person suddenly smacks you. And you never quite know where the translation went wrong.

Copy the error, paste it back, and ask for a fix. Then hope and pray. That was the loop. It worked, sometimes. But limited context windows, tokens, and patience made it frustrating.

Release after release, the tools got good enough and now catch their own mistakes, so you can see the error, understand what broke, and correct it without having to play translator. The loop got tighter, and the smacking stopped.

So, last week I built a “full” application.

For me, the door was never locked. It simply didn’t exist until one afternoon, it did.

AI Doesn't Reduce Work, It Quietly Makes It Worse

Huibert Evekink — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:27:00 GMT

We spend considerable time studying and talking with leaders, teams, and investors about AI. What strikes us is not a lack of intelligence or determination to find ways to use it, but rather the difficulty of imagining (and therefore discussing) the longer-term consequences it might have for the business and the people working in it.

Leadership Has Moved Into the Work

Huibert Evekink — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 07:57:52 GMT

Why experience, judgment, and responsibility now travel together

The Dismantling of Traditional Leadership

Huibert Evekink — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:20:50 GMT

Why AI Demands Post-Heroic Capability

Huibert Evekink

Dec 18, 2025

The Great Rewiring of Knowledge Work

Huibert Evekink — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 09:53:16 GMT

Most of us won’t lose our jobs to a single AI tool. But we may find ourselves slowly pushed out of the workflows we’ve always been part of. The shift will come quietly, through pilot projects that introduce AI agents, not to replace us outright, but to unbundle our roles and reassign tasks in ways that reshape what our jobs even are.

Fluent in AI? Good. Curious? Better.

Huibert Evekink — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 08:30:02 GMT

How My Agent And I Stumbled Into AI Readiness

Huibert Evekink — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 15:15:35 GMT

Agents at your service

We’re entering the agentic wave of AI — a shift where humans and intelligent agents will increasingly work side by side. Forget about the mythical superintelligence, that’s post-bubble-bursting stuff. The real opportunity right now is learning to work alongside the AI systems we already have: imperfect, powerful, and increasingly pushed into making our daily workflows more efficient.

Whatever happened To The Long Term?

Huibert Evekink — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 07:56:36 GMT

Over the summer, I have been working on what we half-jokingly call the mother of all AI upskilling apps: a tool to help people reimagine both today's jobs and the ones coming in the next decade.