Ben Tossell resets his AI use in a 30 days

Tossell's post is framed as a personal reset, but it draws on a wider conversation he surfaces from other writers. One quoted post describes people running 20 personal agents for social content or life management and asks, "What are we doing here?!" Another, from Jack Raines, argues that AI was meant to handle work, yet when it does there turns out to be endless work you can do. Tossell ties this to his own habit of starting more than he finishes: a course roughly 70% done and a tool for non-techies using personal agents at 80% done.

The post also connects to his own history with the newsletter. He started it five days a week to keep up with everything, then cut it to two days along with revenue because it was so noisy. He says the noise is still there, possibly louder. His response is a set of small rules for the next 30 days rather than a product or business launch.

One detail he offers as context is a rule of thumb that most people can only hold four things in their heads. He contrasts that with top engineers who can churn out tons of work and multi-task, the kind of companies he says he wants to invest in because that may be what it takes to build a generational $Trillion company. For himself, he lands on a simpler test: use an agent when he wants to do something, but do not work for the agent.