Guides
Practical writing on the invisible work you carry, and the small AI tools you can build to carry some of it for you. No coding, ten minutes at a time.
AI for Working Mums
For mums back at work with a small child, an involved partner, and the whole family still running out of their head.
- What Is the Mental Load?
The mental load is the work of running a household in your head: noticing, deciding and checking, rather than the doing. Here is where the term came from, why it falls unevenly, and what actually helps.
- The Mental Load on Women
Why the noticing mostly falls to women, what the research on cognitive labour actually found, and the few things that genuinely shift it.
- Invisible Labor: The Work Nobody Counts
Invisible labour is work that keeps a household or a workplace running and registers as work to nobody but the person doing it. Here is where the term came from, what counts, and how to make it visible.
- The Mental Load List
A full mental load checklist, sorted by category, covering the invisible jobs nobody sees. Copy it, cut what does not apply, and add what does.
- How to Explain the Mental Load to Your Partner
Your partner would help more if you asked. The difficulty is that the work you want to share is work they cannot see. Here is how to make it visible without it turning into an argument.
- A Brain Dump Template, and a Way to Skip the Sorting
A brain dump template you can copy in ten seconds, an ADHD version for when you have no free hands, and what to do with the list once it is written.