Brad Stulberg

Writer and performance coach, focused on rest and sustainable achievement. Cited by cal-newport in 2026-11-02-youtube-newport-techno-selectionism as the worked example of the Choosing C: on a prior Deep Questions episode (autumn 2026) Stulberg said of LLMs that he knows use cases exist, but “Not for me. For what I do as a living, as a writer and a coach, I don’t need the supposed efficiencies that I’ve been told. And it gets in the way of me producing my best ideas and it makes me unhappy. Not for me. I’m not going to use it” (13:34-13:52, as Newport recounts it).

The quotation is Newport’s recall of a conversation on his own show, not checked against Stulberg’s own text in this ingest. His position is the refusal case of the argument human-near-the-loop and agent-ceiling-disagreement make about where judgment stays with the practitioner.

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• 2026-11-02-youtube-newport-techno-selectionism, timestamps 13:26-13:52