Ep. 59 Can AI Solve FOMO?

What topics are you interested in? What resonates? What do you want to hear more of? This is episode 59, Can AI Solve FOMO? Now, my perspective is that there's lots of questions here, and I'm not sold that it's a total solution, and I'll go into why that is.

But I also think there are some areas where AI can really help and extend some of the productivity systems that have already proven to be effective in this space.

AI is pitched as being able to summarize lots of different information, pull out the important bits, maybe get to know a bit about kind of how we as an individual work and what might be important to us and the type of systems that we have.

So this is kind of how it's pitched as a way to keep tabs on more things than what you're able to do without it.

Now, what are some problems here? And I'm gonna draw from Cal Newport, who's talked a lot about productivity.

And there are a number of other people in this space, kind of in that sphere.

So one is this idea of the infinite buffer problem that sort of the more information you're able to pull in, the more things you're able to do, the more tasks and that sort of thing.

You're never going to get to the end of it.

There's always more there.

There's an infinite amount of things.

So at some point, you're always going to have to prioritize or say no.

So I think that's something that we don't necessarily think about with AI and using that to capture and summarize all of the different data that we might have access to and all of the things going on.

that we're never going to get to the end of summarizing every possible thing that we can look at.

So that's not something that AI is going to be able to solve.