{"podcast":{"title":"How I Work","slug":"how-i-work-960132","podcast_index_feed_id":960132,"rss_url":"https://www.omnycontent.com/d/playlist/fa326977-3de5-4283-9b8b-af3500c58607/190bd54e-82e6-43fb-8f6a-af46001792de/71f0c47d-eac4-4e42-b713-af46001792ec/podcast.rss","website_url":"https://amantha.com/podcast/","image_url":"https://www.omnycontent.com/d/programs/fa326977-3de5-4283-9b8b-af3500c58607/190bd54e-82e6-43fb-8f6a-af46001792de/image.jpg?t=1759741460&size=Large","author":"Amantha Imber","episode_count":717,"summary":"You know those annoyingly successful people who seem to have it all figured out? Time to steal their playbook. Organisational psychologist Dr Amantha Imber gets world‑class achievers to spill their secrets - the daily strategies behind their success through to life hacks and productivity hacks they’d rather keep to themselves. We’re talking practical tips for boosting your output (including clever AI tools and shortcuts that’ll make you look like a genius), managing overwhelm without losing your mind, and optimising both work and wellbeing. No motivational fluff. Just battle‑tested tactics from people who’ve cracked the code.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-i-work-960132"},"episode":{"title":"This is what AI is actually doing to your brain, with Gabriella Rosen Kellerman","slug":"this-is-what-ai-is-actually-doing-to-your-brain-with-gabriella-rosen-kellerman","published_at":"2026-04-22T20:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-i-work-960132/this-is-what-ai-is-actually-doing-to-your-brain-with-gabriella-rosen-kellerman","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-i-work-960132","url":"https://omny.fm/shows/how-i-work/hw-gabriella-v2","audio_url":"https://mgln.ai/e/187/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/fa326977-3de5-4283-9b8b-af3500c58607/190bd54e-82e6-43fb-8f6a-af46001792de/b076e38e-a1db-494b-b0a5-b4330024c61f/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=71f0c47d-eac4-4e42-b713-af46001792ec","summary":"The more AI tools you use, the more productive you get. Right?  Not exactly. Boston Consulting Group leader Gabriella Rosen Kellerman studied what actually happens to people who are using AI intensively at work, and what she found is that beyond a certain point, something breaks. Not burnout. Something different, something the existing research wasn't equipped to explain, and something that organisations are currently making worse without realising it.  In this episode, I sit down with Gabriella to unpack AI Brain Fry: what it is, who is most at risk, and why the sweet spot for productivity might be far fewer tools than you think. We also get into what managers are doing, often unknowingly, that adds 15% more mental fatigue to their teams, and the one cultural message that does more to protect employees than any AI policy.  If you have ever ended the day feeling strangely depleted despite not having done anything physically tiring, this episode will name what's happening and tell you what to do about it.  Gabriella and I discuss:   What AI Brain Fry is and why it sits outside the existing burnout literature  Which roles are showing the highest rates of brain fry and what that signals about AI oversight work more broadly  The productivity cliff: why two to three AI tools is the sweet spot, and what happens to output beyond that  What the most sophisticated AI users do differently to the people with 25 browser tabs open  The two manager behaviours that either cut mental fatigue by 15% or actually increase it  Why some common organisational messages about AI are making employees more vulnerable to fatigue, not less…","meta_description":"The more AI tools you use, the more productive you get. Right? Not exactly. Boston Consulting Group leader Gabriella Rosen Kelle…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2123,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/how-i-work-960132/episodes/this-is-what-ai-is-actually-doing-to-your-brain-with-gabriella-rosen-kellerman/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-i-work-960132/this-is-what-ai-is-actually-doing-to-your-brain-with-gabriella-rosen-kellerman.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}