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Thoughts on focus, tools, and doing less.
Attention is all you have
AI made it nearly free to test whether an idea has legs. It also made it nearly free to avoid the hard middle of the idea you already committed to. The difference between the two is what happens on day two.
The weight of what you meant to do
Most plans are unrealistic from the start. The cost isn't the unfinished tasks - it's never finding out what happens when you keep your word to yourself.
The tool should support judgment, not replace it
Planning your day is not an optimisation problem. The act of choosing what matters is itself the most important thing you do.
The distinction between collecting and committing is everything
Most task tools collapse collecting and committing into one gesture. Separating them changes how you think about your day.
The tool became the work
Configuring feels like progress. It has the shape of productive work without the risk of actually doing any.
Now That You Can Build Anything, Why Aren't You?
AI removed every barrier to building except the one that matters. The filter didn't disappear - it moved from technical ability to genuine obsession with a problem.