01
FOMO
(Fear of Missing Out)
You always feel like you missed something.
AI breakthroughs, new workflows, energy, finance, investing—every field now moves by the hour.
U.S. knowledge workers already use 4–6 AI tools a day:
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Notion AI, Otter, Claude…
Yet the more tools you add, the more fragmented the information becomes.
The feeling never goes away: the important signal is somewhere you did not look.
You think you are saving it. You are really forgetting it.
You find a great article, thread, screenshot, or podcast clip.
You do not know exactly how you will use it, so you forward it to your own
Slack, iMessage, or email:
“This is useful. I will need it later. Better send it to myself before I lose it.”
Then, 99% of the time, you never open it again.
03
“I know I saw it somewhere”
When the work begins, everything you need is gone.
A VC memo is due. A Substack issue has to ship. The board deck needs one decisive page.
But the evidence is scattered across Google Drive, Slack threads, browser bookmarks,
and multiple AI chat histories. The argument that felt obvious last week is already blurry.
You rebuild the research under deadline—and settle for work that is shallower than your real thinking.