Well, the last two days I built a robot.
An Agent.
I programmed it with ChatGPT, and after a ridiculous amount of testing, it is now very close to fully running my email.
It releases what is unnecessary. (Most of it.)
It summarizes what needs summarizing.
And it calls my attention to the few things that actually need my **ATTENTION**.
I named it my 001 - The Attention Steward.
Because lately I've been practicing attention every morning.
Walk. Sunlight. Sit. Breathe. Be still. Listen. Notice where my attention goes. Bring it back. I've been realizing how incredibly valuable our attention actually is. And yet we hand it away ALL DAY LONG. Email. Notifications. Spam. Algorithms. Somebody else's urgency.
So I spent two days doing the exact opposite. I used technology to protect my attention.
And yeah... it took a LOT of work. Front-end loaded work. Short-term, meticulous, detailed pain... for long-term freedom and gain.
That's what excites me about Agentic AI. Most technology wants MORE of your attention.
My little Special Agent 001 has one job:
**Give me mine back.**
This, my friends, is an amazing tool.
Powerful.
And it gives me exactly what I wanted from it:
MORE FREEDOM.