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Notes on Mental Load from the team building Smitty.
I don't want AI to replace parenting. I want it to replace paperwork.
Mental Load
We've gotten better at understanding our brains, but family technology still assumes they all work the same. Why the goal isn't more productivity, but less paperwork.
8 min read · Jul 12
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The calendar wasn't the problem.
Mental Load
Between paper printouts, patient portals, and reminder emails, family medical appointments arrive in a dozen different formats. Here's the system that finally worked for mine.
9 min read · Jul 11
A shared calendar doesn't reduce the mental load. It just makes it look prettier.
Mental Load
The mental load isn't a scheduling problem. It's a reading, deciding, and remembering problem — and no shared calendar can solve it.
6 min read · Jan 15
Invisible labor is the work you only notice when it stops happening.
Mental Load
Invisible labor is the unseen work of running a family — reading, deciding, and remembering. Here's why shared calendars don't help, and a new way to share the load.
8 min read · Jan 22
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