I’m sitting on my flight back from California.

Weekend was amazing.

Youth sports. Fresh air. Time away. The kind of reset you actually need.

And then… real life.

There was a moment; one of those parenting ones.

She was upset. Didn’t play as well as she wanted. Didn’t like how I responded.

Angry. Tears.

And if I’m being honest… I didn’t love how I showed up in that moment either.

Then, like it does, it passed.

We talked. Reset. All better.

But it sticks with you a bit.

So, back to my flight, I finally settle into my seat.

American Airlines flight. On time, no wait at the airport (which honestly feels like a minor miracle).

I open my laptop.

And there it is.

A wall of emails I ignored all weekend.

AI updates. “Breaking news.” “This changes everything.” “You’re already behind if you haven’t seen this.”

Dozens of them.

Maybe more.

And my first thought wasn’t curiosity.

It was:

“Gosh… I’m tired.”

Here’s the part that’s been bothering me lately:

I do this for a living.

And I still feel behind.

So what chance does someone have who doesn’t work in AI all day?

You’ve got a full-time job. A family. Real responsibilities.

And somehow you’re also supposed to keep up with an industry that reinvents itself every 6 hours?

It’s not realistic.

I remember reading something similar in spirit to what Andrej Karpathy once said: that even he feels behind sometimes.

Let that sink in.

If he feels behind… what are the rest of us supposed to feel?

So I stopped trying to keep up with everything.

Instead, I built an agent.

One small thing that’s made a big difference:

I have an agent (I call it The Daily Signal).

Every day, it scans my inbox.

It pulls all the AI news, updates, launches, think pieces…

Then it deduplicates everything and sends me one clean summary.

One email.

That’s it.

It probably saves me an hour a day.

But more importantly…

It gives me peace of mind.

Because the real problem isn’t lack of information.

It’s too much of it.

We’re entering a phase of AI where:

More tools ≠ more clarity More updates ≠ more understanding More content ≠ more value

And the people who win?

Won’t be the ones who consume the most.

They’ll be the ones who filter the best.

If you’re feeling behind…

You’re not.

You’re just overloaded.

A few things that have helped me:

• Stop trying to read everything (you can’t)
• Build or use filters (agents, summaries, trusted curators)
• Pick 2–3 sources that actually matter and ignore the rest
• Accept that “missing something” is part of the game now

Happy Monday.

My week is a little more zen than it could be.

Alex