Go ahead, automate everything so you can be as busy as ever before

Mac Minis out of stock. Courses on how to set up your AI agent. Influencers explaining their five-agent stack that runs their "successful one-person company." We've arrived here, apparently.

And now: people complaining they're more tired than ever.

Someone on Threads said it plainly: "I would prompt it to do something before I'm going to pee. It's just finished things so quickly that I can't help but come up with more things for it to do."

I read that and felt genuinely baffled. Not at the tools. At the person.

At some point you have to admit you're a token addict. Burning tokens, making things, watching outputs appear, it gives you the feeling of building something important. A hit of achievement. A sense of levelling up. I get it, actually. I felt something similar in 2020 during COVID quarantine, teaching myself frontend development. The moment your design goes live, exactly as you imagined it, with full control, that's a powerful feeling. I'm not judging the feeling.

I'm judging what you're doing instead of it.

Because here's what's getting skipped: critical thinking. Deciding which idea is worth executing at all. With everything now technically feasible, the ability to distinguish should from can is not a nice-to-have, it's the whole game. And it's exactly what nobody's practising.

A product you vibe-coded that nobody wants is, at best, a passion project. At worst, it's AI slop wearing a business card. Either admit it's a game and enjoy it guilt-free, or admit you're procrastinating on the things that actually make a business work: finding product-market fit, learning to sell, talking to real people.

You made yourself this busy. You chose prompting over reaching out to potential users. You chose tweaking a broken agent over a real conversation at the dinner table.

為學日益，為道日損。 To pursue knowledge, add something every day. To pursue wisdom, remove something every day.

The tools will wait. They're very patient.