"Busy is the New Stupid" is an interactive dashboard applying the MITRE ATT&CK framework to productivity. It treats cognitive drains like meeting overload as threats across phases like Initial Access…
A tactical framework examining how busyness compromises cognitive function, strategic thinking, and effectiveness. Click on any tactic to view specific attack techniques.
Select a tactic above
View specific attack techniques, defense strategies, and best practices
These foundational practices form the bedrock of all anti-busyness strategies:
Every commitment should align with explicit goals and values, not just fill time
Monthly review of all recurring commitments to eliminate what no longer serves you
View every "no" as a "yes" to something more important and aligned
Build rhythms that can be maintained indefinitely rather than sprinting to burnout
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By RankingMember 2026-01-0321:137 reply I'm feeling stupid reading this because I feel like it's using a tactical framework I'm not familiar with, e.g. what is the significance of the labeling of items like "Meeting Overload" with "T1001"?
FWIW my feeling is positive in regard to the core meaning being conveyed- I just feel like I'm missing out on something in not understanding the format.
By bytecauldron 2026-01-0321:21 Not saying there isn't anything valuable here but the entire site looks like an LLM prompt.
By conkeisterdoor 2026-01-0321:37 The numbering of the challenges (eg T1001) is a little confusing to me too. My assumption is that the first number after the T is a tactic ID and the remaining digits are the challenge/issue ID. Maybe the challenge/issue ID is 3 digits because there's room (a plan?) to add many more examples?
I like the substance of this conceptual model as well (and may actually use some of it in my own personal productivity framework :-)), but don't see why it needs to be presented this way. It's neat, but I'd personally rather all the content be on one page, and maybe with a search feature for if/when the list of example challenges/issues grows.
By evanreichard 2026-01-0321:25 It's an homage to MITRE ATT&CK.
By waldothedog 2026-01-0321:181 reply It looks like a sort of serial number or categorization. The first block they are T1. The second block they are T2. So each category (access, persistence, etc) is a T w a leading number and the issues/“tactics” inside of that have a 001, 002 etc, as a reference to that specific instance (meeting overload)
Edited for typos
By RankingMember 2026-01-0321:19 Yeah I get that, I just don't understand the "why"
By kayo_20211030 2026-01-0321:18 I'm with you. What is this?
By stackghost 2026-01-0321:20 Imagine the website is presenting you with a quicksheet about some new type of attack. It's called BUSY.
Initial Access covers how you being a BUSY attack. Execution covers how BUSY tends to manifest itself in normal operations. And so on, and so forth.
Note the domain: CISO Tradecraft. It's just the author(s) being cheeky in their presentation. If you aren't in a security-adjacent space I could see how it wouldn't land.
By twuiketghtdgh 2026-01-0321:27 this site is a riff on mitre att&ck, a popular and highly-utilized framework for organizing and categorizing threat actor and malware tradecraft. it's also llm slop.
By jatins 2026-01-0321:22 Looks like an LLM generated site with little thought put behind it, flagged for a low effort submission
