Maybe it starts with a little voice—the one that says you should be doing more. So you squeeze in emails while brushing your teeth. Podcasts replace silence. Rest becomes something you have to earn.

Sure, it feels like momentum…at first. But eventually, it feels like drowning in your own ambition.

Anne-Laure Le Cunff knows the feeling. As a former Googler turned neuroscientist, she watched her own life get swallowed by KPIs and calendar invites. Then she walked out and wrote Tiny Experimen...