Indie thoughts
Or is laughter the thing we cannot let die?
how can I write when *gestures at…everything*
can’t let die
Reading and watching
I do for a living I usually say writer i
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spend basically all my time either
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writing these videos writing code
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writing my fiction podcasts or writing
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music over the years of tweaking my
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writing environment I've noticed a
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subtle change every improvement to my
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writing systems improves my ability to
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think and reason about my work and my
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life looking into the psychology it's
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actually quite simple increasing the
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bandwidth between our mind in our brain
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and our mind on the page simply allows
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us to think faster and better according
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to the extended mind thesis and it turns
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out that in a very real way writing is
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thinking
asset is not your home your share
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portfolio or your PSA 10 Charizard it's
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the hours of work you can sell over your
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lifetime anything you can do to improve
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the value of those hours be it
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upskilling voting for proworker policies
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or just making sure you're spending your
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valuable time well should make you
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richer in the long term more than almost
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anything else assuming you don't already
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have a huge portfolio of other assets or
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take on too much debt in the process now
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logically this means that anything that
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threatens the value of this asset should
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be really alarming to you a machine or
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program that can do all or even part of
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your job is such a threat it's
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competition in the market for work that
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makes your own hours less competitive
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and therefore less valuable
Curiosity is a better compass than cynicism—it shifts from defending your territory to exploring what's possible (this reframe — from Holly Herndon, was a big unlock for me).
What matters in the age of AI is taste
Always follow your ABC’s