I’m a CEO overwhelmed by AI projects. Here’s my system for staying sane

I’ve never been good at stopping what I’m doing. AI has made this problem even worse. Near the end of a recent workday, I was looking forward to closing my laptop and enjoying a relaxing dinner with my family. I had a few minutes free around 4:30, so I decided to check on a dormant project: a pile of prototypes and old data I’d been putting off for months. I opened up the files and threw them into Claude Code to see what was cooking. Seven hours later, I was hunched over my keyboard with bloodshot eyes. And I was really hungry. What happened? It turned out that the dusty pile was a gold min...