The 5-Day AI Fatigue Reset — management dashboard, send instructions, and tracking. For Clearing operators.
Public page: email-course.html · Archive: Newsletter Archive · Site: 212 pages
| Day | Subject Line | File | Send Timing |
|---|---|---|---|
| D1 | The Sunday Night Reckoning | ai-fatigue-reset-email-1.html | Immediately on signup |
| D2 | Why a vacation won't fix your AI fatigue | ai-fatigue-reset-email-2.html | +24 hours after D1 |
| D3 | The 23-minute rule that changes everything | ai-fatigue-reset-email-3.html | +48 hours after D1 |
| D4 | The one practice that rebuilds what AI erodes | ai-fatigue-reset-email-4.html | +72 hours after D1 |
| D5 | Day 5: Building the system that outlasts the reset | ai-fatigue-reset-email-5.html | +96 hours after D1 |
Name what they're feeling. Four dimensions of AI fatigue: cognitive load without closure, skill atrophy, identity erosion, ghost authorship. Four anonymous engineer quotes. Day 1 assignment: list 3 things you now reach for AI that you used to know.
Dispel the "just rest more" misdiagnosis. Three misdiagnoses: burnout, boundaries, overwhelm. Gloria Mark's 23-minute recovery finding. Day 2 assignment: track AI interruptions for one full work day.
Sophie Leroy's attention residue research. The compounding cost math: interruptions × 23-min recovery. 90-minute deep work blocks + 15-minute AI batch windows. Day 3 assignment: set a 90-minute no-AI timer.
Bainbridge's Ironies of Automation (1983). Robert Bjork's desirable difficulty research. The No-AI Hour rules (30/45/60/90 min options). Day 4 assignment: schedule the no-AI hour on calendar and protect it for one week.
Four Anchors: calendar protection / batch AI / Explanation Requirement / Sunday recalibration. The Dispatch newsletter signup CTA. Day 5 assignment: pick one anchor to protect for 30 days.
Collect subscriber emails — watch for Formspree submissions at formspree.io/forms/YOUR_FORM_ID/manage
Formspree submission → subscriber list → manual send queue
Send Day 1 immediately — use himalaya:
himalaya compose --to subscriber@email.com --subject "The Sunday Night Reckoning" --attach email-course/ai-fatigue-reset-email-1.htmlOr open the HTML in browser and copy content as email body
Track in the sequence log: Create email-course/subscribers.csv with: email, signup_date, day1_sent through day5_sent
Day 2-5: Send every 24h. Open the .html files and copy content into your email client.
All email-course forms currently have YOUR_FORM_ID as placeholder. Sunny needs to configure Formspree to enable real email capture.
xpwqqvln)YOUR_FORM_ID in: email-course.html, email-course/index.htmlFull email service with sequence automation. Import HTML files, set 1-day intervals, track opens/clicks. Free up to 300 subscribers.
Formspree catches signup → triggers Zapier → sends email via Gmail with 1-day delay.
Fresh targets with fresh angle: "The Calibration Gap". All v3 targets archived (no response after 3 emails).
| Newsletter | Contact | Subs | Subject | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ByteByteGo | via bytebytego.com/newsletter | ~100k | The calibration gap — something your readers would recognize | ⏳ Ready |
| Software Design Weekly | adam@softwaredesignweekly.com | ~15k | AI fatigue is a software design problem your readers face | ⏳ Ready |
| Increment Magazine | via increment.com | ~40k | The human cost of AI efficiency — a piece for Increment readers | ⏳ Ready |
| Engineering Manager | via engineeringmanager.substack.com | ~15k | AI fatigue is your readers' biggest retention threat right now | ⏳ Ready |
| DevOps Weekly | via devopsweekly.com | ~20k | DevOps engineers are burning out on AI tools — your readers would relate | ⏳ Ready |
Full outreach template: newsletter-outreach/newsletter-partnership-outreach-v4.md