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Ideas floating along in my stream of my consciousness

Reading and storytelling are empathy engines in disguise. They force you to inhabit someone else's inner world—not just understand their actions, but feel how those actions land from their perspective.

There's something profound about how stories work on us. They're not just entertainment or information transfer. They're perspective-shifting

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

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. Video... See more

Its also interesting to think about the infrastructure, dependencies needed to “host” these things into the future.

I wanted an AI to do my chores so I could do art, but AI makes art, and I still have to do my chorеs.

Biking is the closest thing to flying like a bird that most of us will ever see.

Get it into prose. Encapsulate into paragraphs (building blocks). Distill down the theme and concept of that paragraph. Gather the materials, sort and categorize them, then worry about constructing the building.

Productivity is so insidious, much akin to riptide. As soon as you dive in, it pulls you deeper in, and despite how hard you try, you're basically swimming in place, tiring yourself out and more likely to drown in it. The more productive I try to be, the more I feel like I'm falling behind.

Some of this can also be attributed to the tools we try to

Its not about being perfect it's about sharing your growth and journey with others.

The pandemic accelerated the virtual takeover (for better and worse). Better for knowledge workers to take back their time, worse in many more ways. Virtual interactions, virtual value creation, virtual pseudo-collaboration. We are evolved for the physical world, the tangible, the physical, the imperfect, the a social, a human scale.