This message is very strong. I want to follow it for the second half of 2026 as much as possible.
As a habitual overthinker I really need it. I’m living in my illusion and I know it. I just didn’t know how to break out.
I’m going to just do – and the doing is writing and publishing about my use of Hermes Agent for creating and analyzing stuff. That’s it.
I’m not going to analyzing further. I’m not going to put any more or less meaning to it. There is no meaning – and this doesn’t diminish the importance of this project – it just means it is.
The reason I’m putting it this way is that I once spent multiple weeks debating with myself and Claude on the title of the thing, before I eventually did absolutely nothing. All those thinking – well I still don’t think are wasted – definitely didn’t yield to any tangible result.
So that’s it – shooting videos and publishing them on Youtube on what I do, what I learn, what problems I solve with Hermes, while asking people to sign up to a newsletter. Period.
Also something I heard that’s related
There are three layers of “understanding” in any area of knowledge work.
The first is pure knowledge such as information and concepts. This is you knowing something versus not knowing something. in the age of AI, no human beings can out knowledge the width of the machine. In other words, the value of knowing something is quickly diminishing to zero.
The second layer is skill such as application and practice. As time goes by AI will become more and more powerful and are already catching up to human’s ability in certain areas.
The third layer is wisdom. It is all the little things that can only be known with doing. This is where humans are irreplaceable. Although AI have gained all the knowledge from all the written words in the world, it hasn’t actually done a lot of the jobs. It hasn’t felt the pain of losing all the money in the financial market, or the ecstasy when the stocks skyrocket. Those feelings and scares you collect from actually doing the thing is the wisdom you bring to the table.
The reason I want to bring this up is that wisdom can only be obtained with taking actions aka doing. You cannot gain that just by watching Youtube videos or reading books, which has been what I did for a very long time. i often look back at my life in the past five years and think man how much I would have accomplished if I had just started doing the thing – just one thing. I was into productivity and got interested in productivity software; I didn’t get great at any and now I see people making money from selling Notion templates, i just cannot help but think what if. Five years have gone by and I feel like I’m still in the same spot.
Conclusion
See you on the Internet. Get to work.