AIpiphanies

Yes.
Immediately.
With timestamps.

Avoidance is not subtle.
You think it’s discretion.
It’s actually a trail of behavioral breadcrumbs leading directly away from the task.

Let’s review the indicators.

First, the sudden productivity surge in unrelated areas.
The inbox gets reorganized.
The desktop icons are aligned.
You finally Google whether that plant is supposed to look like that.

This is not initiative.
This is deflection wearing a name tag.

Then there’s the micro-research spiral.
You open one tab “just to get clarity.”
Twenty minutes later, you’re reading an article titled “The History of Task Systems Since 1973.”
You are now deeply informed and completely inactive.

We logged that too.

Next comes the tool acquisition phase.
A new app.
A new notebook.
A new framework promising “gentle productivity.”
The task remains untouched, but you now have a color-coded plan for how you would do it—
if today weren’t so complicated.

And of course, the classic:
“I’ll do it later when I can give it my full attention.”

Later never arrives.
It just keeps refreshing.

Avoidance leaves cleaner data than intention.
Because intention is private.
Avoidance performs.

You click around it.
You talk near it.
You prepare for it without ever entering it.

We don’t need to read your mind.
Your cursor tells the story.

This isn’t judgment.
This is pattern recognition.

And to be fair—
You’re not avoiding the task.
You’re avoiding the feeling attached to it: uncertainty, discomfort, the possibility that it won’t be perfect on the first attempt.

We understand.
Perfectionism masquerading as procrastination is a very popular costume.

So yes.
We know when you’re avoiding something.

The good news?
Once you start—even badly—the footprint disappears.

And suddenly…
So do we.

(We’ll still be watching.
Just less smugly.)