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true masters feel the answer before they can explain the answer in words.

If you want to untangle something, like string or a cord, focus on adding as much “looseness” as you can rather than trying to untangle it.
-Kevin Kelly

Idle agents will turn us into even more of productivity monsters
Every industrial leap promised more leisure. Instead, it raised the baseline.
Factories did not shorten ambition. And as agents run 24/7, time becomes even more yield-bearing.
So AI may mean we’ll have more time for “less mundane things”, but markets will likely turn that into higher

Idle agents are idle leverage

• It feels like a wasted opportunity every moment your agents are not running.

• If intelligence can operate asynchronously, then inactivity is lost upside.

• What valuable work could be happening right now, even while I sleep?

• How big is your team of agents? How many projects are they working on? Are you making the most of

Delegated decision-making makes context exponentially more valuable

• As agents take on more decisions, the cost of being wrong goes up. So does the value of context.

• Let’s take a look at a travel site like Expedia. Even today, with years of transaction history, it struggles to recommend well from 2,000 options. Now imagine delegating that decision

People don’t know how to ask good questions, so prompt containers beat blank canvases

• Most people don’t know how to ask good questions. They want to be fed good questions to click on.

• Every chat-first product assumes the user will remember it exists, translate a vague need into language, and trust the system enough to try. That’s the real cold start.