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Break Notes.

Everything we know about the small, awkward gap between asking a machine for something and getting it back. Short essays, written to be read inside one wait.

The seven types of AI-wait behaviour (and which one you are)

Everyone waits differently. Here are the seven recognisable patterns, what each one is secretly optimising for, and the one small fix that helps each of them.

The 3-minute break: a menu you can actually finish

Most break advice assumes you have twenty minutes. You have three. Here are twelve micro-breaks that fit inside a single model response.

Why waiting is not wasting: the case for the honest micro-break

Waiting for an AI to finish is dead time you cannot optimise away. Here's what to do with it instead — and why the research is unusually kind to people who stop.

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