Since March 4, 2026.

Mobile only.
Agents for everything.

I have used my phone almost two hours more than the week before — and I am actually happy about it, even though I normally try to minimize my phone time. Why? Because at the same time my notebook time went down by 80%+. This is because I started to shift heavily to dictating and steering agents with OpenClaw — which I can do entirely from my phone. Phone time goes up. Notebook time goes down. Productivity jumped by not one level but 3 or 4. And so did independence. I can work from anywhere with low internet bandwidth because I only need to get text messages out. This needs so few data that it's literally possible to work in the Patagonian mountains, sitting on a rock in the sun — without any problems. Which is exactly the setup I am currently having, dictating this post from here. 🇦🇷

Honestly I am shaking and smiling at the same time. I am 44 days in my experiment of working from my phone only — and this is getting crazy. I just asked my agent how much of my OKRs it thinks it can take over for me. The answer: roughly 60% of the execution work — the agent leads. 40% only I can do. What I own: • Actual human conversations (interviews, calls, signings) • Investment decisions (I research, you decide) • Physical KRs (running, reading aloud — I track, you do) • Final relationship calls (go/no-go) My job seems to be final judgement and doing physical things like running and reading aloud. Fine with this.

What I realized in my 46-day experiment of going mobile, working only with agents, is that: my job is to think. Not to click, drag and drop, copy paste, or try to understand software — but really to think. After my thinking, my agents do the work for me exactly how I need it done — not how other software providers actually produce software. The good thing about it is you can think from anywhere. Normally, a room in front of a notebook with screens is not the best place to think. So the positive side effect: you do your thinking at places you really enjoy. And this is not just enjoyable — it also improves your results. win win win. So again: your job is to think. Not copy paste. Not drag and drop. Not understand software. Think about this the next time you click through software. And yes — this is tough too. We are not used to that much thinking anymore. It's quite exhausting mentally.

The biggest learning going fully agentic is that I don't use any files anymore. Why? Because files are made for humans to edit them. This is exactly what we don't want to do when we work agentic — because if we create an Excel file, a presentation, or something, you always have the easy default to go back and edit it yourself. If you start from scratch with an agent and let the agent write your "files", then these files will be Markdown, databases, etc., and you can't edit them directly. This increases the friction for you doing so. You'll learn how to work with it so that the agent can do it. Good side effect: if the agent has set it up in the first place, it will have set it up in a way that the agent can work best with it. Which is what you actually want — and your results with agents will be better. As Seneca would say: "The escape route you preserve is the commitment you refuse to make."

Recently I sent the longest email I have ever written to the people that have the least time, executives in my network. Why did I do this? Because of the learnings of running a +51 days AI experiment of working from my phone only, with agents doing all the execution from Patagonia with limited internet connection, and having the impression that every single human and every company needs this.. Better sooner than later. That's why I felt this urgency to share that within my network of the people I care. The feedback was so positive that I want to share that even broader. If you are interested in the insights, send me a message — happy to share.