The Smith Way as a Way to Work with Agents Through Email
I read Vitalik Buterin's note on digital minimalism: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/10/31/digital_minimalism.html.
It brought up some interesting associations with my system for communicating with agents through email.
In fact, this is also a form of digital minimalism. I deliberately give up familiar interfaces. I am leaning toward doing everything through agents managed by email in the near future, using one interface that is familiar and convenient for me.
The only thing is that I do not plan to give up the internet. I have a network of agents rather than one local agent, and I need a network to communicate with them. At the same time, my architecture supports offline work, with the results sent once a network becomes available. So I will be fine on a plane.
I should formulate my work philosophy someday and give it a name, the Smith Way, for example. I should also understand what influenced it. I assume it was the Unix way and RMS, back when I was still an active Emacs user.