A pruning tool for agents, apps, memory systems, wearables, and everything else politely insisting it deserves a permanent place in your cognitive supply chain.
| Tool | Primary job | $/mo | Value 1–5 |
Uniqueness 1–5 |
Reliability 1–5 |
Integration 1–5 |
Portability 1–5 |
Attention tax 1–5 |
Score | Verdict |
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Keep tools that are both high-value and structurally distinct. Consolidate tools that duplicate a route. Preserve odd specialists only when their uniqueness is real. Sunset anything whose continued existence depends mainly on guilt, sunk cost, or a charming landing page.
Your personal “working media ratio” is the share of time and money that reaches an actual outcome, rather than being consumed by setup, reconciliation, migration, checking, troubleshooting, and deciding which agent should ask another agent to do something.