843. How People Are Really Using AI in 2026

No Days Off with Brian Gubernick · Jun 23, 2026 · 7m

AI can do almost anything now — including your thinking, if you let it. In this episode, Brian unpacks a Harvard Business Review piece by Marc Zao-Sanders that names a risk hiding inside our daily AI use: "thinkslop," the lazy thinking that creeps in when we lean on the tool too hard. You'll hear the four ways it sneaks up on you — losing track of what you actually wanted, racking up "cognitive debt," giving up the writing that sharpens your ideas, and getting flattered into quitting too early — plus why the very tasks we're tempted to hand off are the ones that make us valuable in the first…