You ever feel like there is too much to do, never enough time and there’s a massive opportunity cost to not running your claude code 24/7?
You’re not alone. I’ve felt this way many a time. It is part of a larger feeling of anxiety and uncertainty that you’re not “staying up to date with AI enough” that I think we can all intuit already - but today I wanted to talk about two more specific trends, one new and one old, that are now at the forefront.
Information Asymmetry: Since the printing press there’s effectively been more overall knowledge than time in someone’s life to work through it. In the 1940’s Vannevar Bush, think like just raw invention output of Edison + he lead America’s entire national scientific coordination through WWII and beyond, identified this exact problem:
“...publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record. The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.”
He proposed a physical machine that ran on microfilm and an analog computer called the Memex. Interesting the vision for this machine could pretty well describe what is now possible with Obsidian + Claude Code today. You are part of a much longer history than you realize. The smartest people in the world decades ago were grappling with it the same core problem (too much info, not enough energy or time) that you are today
Agentic FOMO: The second, more acute and recent trend is unique to our times. It is the lie of digital optionality (endless feed scrolling, one more post, one more video, one more x) compounded by the ability of LLMs to generate information extremely relevant to your life - all tied up in the hype/fear cycle of “AGI.”
In this video I discuss these problems in depth, how I’ve noticed them pop up in my in own life (I now find myself checking on my claude code agents in between sets at the gym), the ways I’m trying to solve them and what I think “solvable” vs something closer to acceptance and active engagement with limitations.
I will not even pretend I have anything close to all the answers, but this is my POV and experience, and I hope its useful to you at the least :)
Figuring out that this is a problem people have been experiencing for far longer than I even considered was comforting and helped me step back.
Anyone else feeling the agentic fomo? Why and how are you dealing with it?
Articles cited:
As We May Think by Vannevar Bush
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