LOGS

Ideas floating along in my stream of my consciousness

Style is a series of choices that we make and formula we develop for representing things in a certain way it's the lens through which we look at the world and the rules that we apply when we try to re-create that.

Why do we care so much what strangers think, but think so little about how our actions affect those closest to us?

I 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

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

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.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is none more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery. - Richard Steele

This is the danger of social media mind rot.

Captured by convenience: There is urgency and perceived inconvenience inherent at any efficiency a tool or technology enables. Cars vs. Bikes, Planes vs. trains.

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 —

How 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.

I've realized that I get so many ideas while doing things that require enough of my conscious attention (hiking, biking, showering) that they cause my self-editing mind to take a back seat.