Dave Morin: email is now other people's agents' todo list for your life
heyneighbor · x · 2026-10-23
Dave Morin (Slow Ventures, ex-Facebook) flags a new kind of workplace AI slop: your colleagues are increasingly driven by AI agents that lack context on what matters — for themselves or for you — so they ask for things as if they were priorities. His line, picked by heyneighbor as quote of the week: 'Email is now other people's agent's todo list for your life. This is going to take some work to fix.'
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