LOGS: 2025
I need to remind myself that most people default to curiosity or concern, not criticism.
Its not about being perfect it's about sharing your growth and journey with others.
Why do we care so much what strangers think, but think so little about how our actions affect those closest to us?
I don't think enough people consider the constraints when choosing their creative medium. I was contemplating whether to make productivity videos, but then realized the overhead would be significantly less with written content. This got me thinking about the literal and metaphorical weight of different media.
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Its also interesting to think about the infrastructure, dependencies needed to “host” these things into the future.
Noting the insidious side effects of more efficient technology, both of the bullet journals vs TeuxDeux, written vs typed, car vs bicycle — doing something for the speed sake of convenience/efficiency leads to this compulsion to further optimize, to continue to automatic reflexive behavior, the downward spiral of trying to do/go more places —
... See moreHow can I encapsulate this tension I'm noticing into a story? Supercharged tech: blindly hurtling forward without consideration of where we're going or how we'll land.
An idea is different than a story. An idea can be sparked by a pattern noticed or an observation seen. But on its own an idea is not a story. A story is a compelling way to communicate ideas to others.
The question of if a drum machine has no soul keeps coming back to me. No matter how sophisticated the AI gets, how much processing power we throw at photography software, a phone camera hits physical limits that no algorithm can overcome. Real bokeh requires actual optics, actual distance, actual light behaving according to physics.
There's
... See moreI just had this beautiful notion of first appreciating that trees are kind of living organisms and then thinking about the cycle of life and how it'd be interesting to be turned into fertilizer that lives on through a tree and then worrying that the tree could die or get cut down but realizing that then what if a part of me became a book or
... See moreCaptured by convenience: There is urgency and perceived inconvenience inherent at any efficiency a tool or technology enables. Cars vs. Bikes, Planes vs. trains.