Dear AI, help me do less

Ours is a culture...dominated by the unceasing exploration of what we can do rather than one of what we ought or ought not to do. We are burdened by a heavy too-much-ness...unwilling to say “no” in our rush to accomplish.

Everyone’s excited about agents, promising they’ll help “free us up”, but I know how this ends: productivity inflation. Everyone’s getting more done so nobody is getting more done.

agents will soon return with information and responses and more things that will require additional attention or oversight. What I want is the opposite: fewer things that require my attention.