How I Avoid Being an Overall Terrible Person Using a Weekly Accountability System That Doesn’t Suck

Hint: IT INVOLVES AI. I KNOW, BEAT A DEAD HORSE.

Left to my own devices, I will spiral.

I'm talking full-blown "Is it Tuesday or March?" mode, surrounded by empty ramen bowls, unread emails piling up, and at least one major life decision being avoided via just one more round of Street Fighter 6 — which I’ve somehow convinced myself is research for a newsletter piece about, I don’t know, success? Or discipline? Something vaguely redemptive?

It's not pretty. It's not even efficient. But it's very, very me.

That's why I built a weekly accountability system — not to maximize productivity or crush goals or whatever LinkedIn influencers think I should be doing — but to avoid becoming a complete car crash of a human being.

You know, the kind who forgets birthdays, ignores texts for weeks, and turns life into an endless blur of anxiety-ridden days that all feel exactly the same.

The twist? This system doesn't make me want to throw my laptop into the ocean.