THE AI STATESMAN

Edition 002 • June 19, 2025

T H E R U N D O W N

1: Message from the Editor

2: Micro-Decisions Are the Hidden Drain

3: The Prompt That Plans Tomorrow Tonight

4: Field-Tested: This Week’s AI Tool

5: Notable AI Happenings

Message from the Editor

In our last newsletter, we introduced why mental bandwidth is your most valuable asset, and how AI can help reclaim it. This week, we’re tackling the silent productivity killer: micro-decisions. These seemingly small choices, from daily logistics to routine tasks, add up invisibly and chip away at your focus.

Today, you’ll learn how to offload those decision points to AI so you can reserve your brainpower for what truly matters, a strategy the most effective men already employ.

— Chad
Editor, The AI Statesman

Micro-Decisions Are the Hidden Drain

You don't feel exhausted because you lack resolve; you feel drained because you're constantly deciding. Every seemingly trivial choice: the precise wording of an email, the prioritization of a dozen tasks, or quickly extracting insight from a dense report—demands a sliver of your finite mental bandwidth. This mental erosion silently depletes your strategic reserves, leaving you fatigued and reactive, with less capacity for the decisions that truly define your impact. This unseen tax accumulates, making you less present, less decisive, and ultimately, less effective in the high-leverage moments that truly matter.

Imagine beginning your day with effortless momentum, your mind clear and primed for focused thought. Artificial Intelligence offers a powerful, elegant solution to this hidden drain. By simply employing a single, refined AI prompt, you can engineer a cognitive flow that eliminates the cascade of routine professional and personal micro-decisions. AI transforms from a mere tool into a discreet partner, effortlessly managing recurring choices like drafting a concise meeting summary, prioritizing urgent communications, or extracting key insights from complex documents. This isn't about mere automation; it's about transforming reactive living into strategic autonomy over your day. It means preserving your mental clarity for the boardroom, the negotiation table, and those invaluable moments of creative breakthrough, allowing you to truly focus on what counts.

Stop letting trivial options silently steal your attention and diminish your capacity. It's time to automate the inconsequential and unleash your full mental bandwidth for purposeful action.

The Prompt That Plans Tomorrow Tonight

Your best sleep starts with tomorrow's decisions settled before bed. This simple truth, often overlooked, is a key to unlocking real morning momentum. Use this prompt to work with AI: identify the choices you struggle with, assign defaults, and build a simplified schedule so your morning is decision-free.

Copy and paste this in ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini:

You are my expert organizing assistant. Tonight, I want to prepare for tomorrow so I don’t wake up second-guessing every choice.
1. Ask me which decisions I most struggle with (meals, exercise time, meetings prep, outfit, commute, etc.).
2. Once I answer, suggest default options or automations for each area (for example, “Wear your navy blazer with grey chinos” or “Set breakfast to oatmeal with berries”).
3. Build a simple schedule for tomorrow that minimizes decision points—slot in those defaults and highlight any remaining must-decide moments with clear prompts.
4. Finally, give me one tip for reducing decision fatigue before I go to sleep.

Bonus tip: Answer each of the AI’s questions as specifically as you can (e.g., “I struggle most with choosing lunch and workout time”). Then paste those answers back in so your AI planner can lock in your defaults and send you a ready-made, decision-light schedule. You’ll wake up knowing exactly what’s next—no mental clutter required.

Field-Tested: This Week’s AI Tool

This week, we are field testing Vetted.ai, your discerning AI product researcher that transforms complex buying decisions into clear, confident choices.

Here is the distinction: traditional product research often buries you under a mountain of conflicting reviews, endless specifications, and the mental drain of comparing countless options—leading to decision fatigue and buyer's remorse. Vetted.ai, however, leverages AI to cut through this noise, rapidly analyzing vast product data, summarizing unbiased insights, and highlighting what truly matters for your needs. It offloads the micro-decisions of comparative analysis and research fatigue, ensuring your discerning judgment is reserved for the final, confident choice, not the tedious groundwork.

I personally integrate Vetted.ai into my decision-making process several times a week for most buying decisions. I used it this week alone to purchase an at home steam sauna, an ascetically pleasing compact blender with minimum 900 watts, and a knife butcher block that is round. It systematically cuts through the noise of product research, saving me countless minutes, often hours, that would otherwise be lost to exhaustive comparisons and analysis paralysis.

Stately tip: While Vetted gives you prices across the internet, combine it with dupe.com for unparalleled buying power.

Explore Vetted.ai or download their iOS or Android app (free with email sign-up) → (not sponsored)

Notable AI Happenings

You’re here because your time matters. Each week, we close with a list of what’s worth it—ideas, voices, and stories that sharpen the mind. Since we're just starting out, I'm going to list more stories than usual to get us caught up on recent happenings.

AI Search's New Frontier: Your Pocket. Perplexity AI is reportedly coming preinstalled on Samsung Galaxy S26 models. This means sophisticated AI assistance is becoming a seamless, ever-present feature in your daily tech. [Editor's Note: Perplexity is one of my favorite and most used AI apps. It will replace Google search.]

The Hidden Drain of Micro-Decisions and the Prompt That Puts Your Day on Autopilot