High-Performance Work
How your nervous system responds to modern work — back-to-back meetings, decision fatigue, cognitive load — and what the data says about recovering your edge mid-day.
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May 13, 202610 min readHigh-Performance Work
It's Not AI Anxiety. It's Grief You Can't Explain Yet.
Layoffs end. AI replacement doesn't. The physiology of this slow career loss looks different from any career stress we've measured before.
Mar 1, 20265 min readHigh-Performance Work
Decision Fatigue Is Physiological. Here's the Data.
Your cognitive decline after hours of decisions isn't mental weakness—it's cortisol and glucose depletion. The data on when leaders lose their edge is clear.
Feb 17, 20266 min readHigh-Performance Work
What Your Nervous System Is Doing During Back-to-Back Calls
Back-to-back meetings don't just exhaust you. They trap your autonomic nervous system in a sympathetic feedback loop it cannot exit without mechanical help.
Feb 5, 20265 min readHigh-Performance Work
How Meetings Destroy Your HRV (And What That Costs You by 4pm)
Back-to-back meetings aren't just exhausting — they're measurably degrading your nervous system. Here's what that costs you.