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039: The End-of-Year Crunch Mindset

Matt Lo & Anne Gillaspie

Matt and Anne dive into the strange tension between being wildly busy yet weirdly unfazed by it. Matt’s been running on four to six hours of sleep while juggling new ChipBot features, US Open training, and a schedule only a “partial nomad worker” could maintain — yet insists he’s not brain-dead, just operating in “GPT-5 Thinking Mode.” Anne challenges him on how he stays functional, which leads them both into a conversation about adrenaline, flow, burnout, and why table tennis gives Matt something business never can.

🚨 Stuff You’ll Want to Remember:

  • “Hard decisions are the easiest ones — it’s the small ones that stop you in your tracks.” — Matt
  • “Your kids’ memories are built from the input you give them.” — Anne

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