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https://ughbusting.com/ | 30 min sessions to bust your ugh fields | £25
Hi all! I've been doing "co-thinking" calls for the last ~3 months with operators at e.g. 80,000 Hours, METR, Generation Pledge, Resolution, and some non-EA companies too, from 1-6 hours/week/person.
I don't currently have capacity for more co-thinking clients, but I do have space for ugh busting (as in, ugh field busting). The mechanism is "jump on a call, we talk for ~5 mins about what you're currently procrastinating on, we decompose the task, and then you get started". (Essentially a more one-person-focused, "this is your time" FocusMate).
Sometimes this might look like you narrating out-loud as you go, or me checking in every 5 mins for accountability, or even populated a shared gdoc in between calls to capture open loops to close during our next call. (Or, even snazzier, I share a vibe-coded app that you can use to add open loops straight to the gdoc with a keyboard command).
I feel hella averse to using the forum for outreach in this way, but I do think this is a valuable service! E.g. one person I've been working with is a team lead at an AI safety org who has used the calls to blast through ~2 weeks worth of email backlog in 30 mins, which has solid knock-on effects for team coordination.
Will leave it there! I also can't believe that "ughbusting.com" was free, lol.
(For a more involved & in-depth version of this, I recommend Attentional Copilot! I've had a post brewing in my head for a while about how plug-in ~exec function coaches to help unbottleneck ~overwhelmed knowledge workers feels like a wave that's coming, & a nice way for rats and post-rats to meet, at least in this liminal period before products like Gwern's Guardian Angel exists)
