Why There's Never Enough Time, Even Though AI Can Do Almost Everything

This episode sits with a strange paradox: AI has made writing, research, translation, and summarization faster than ever — and yet there's less free time than before, not more.It reaches back to Herbert Simon's 1971 observation that "a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention" — and notes how unsettlingly well that framing fits the present moment. Simon's precise wording matters here: he said information *consumes* attention, not the other way around. The person reading always pays a cost.There's a comparison between two kinds of travel — rushing through 30 tourist spots versus standing quietly in front of one view — and between skimming 100 AI articles and sitting with three that are genuinely relevant to your own work. More isn't always more.The episode closes by turning the usual question around. In an age when information is effectively unlimited, the competitive edge may not be the ability to gather it — but the ability to discard it. To decide, deliberately, what not to look at.A quiet look at attention as the one resource AI cannot replenish, and why choosing where *not* to look might be the more important skill now.