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Ideas floating along in my stream of my consciousness

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 important to consider the the appropriate contexts for technologies, asking ourselves if this usage or behavior brings us closer together or further apart. Or if its usage comes at the expense of other's well-being. Tools inevitably change how we interact with the world. We need to build technology that enables experiences and opportunities to

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.

I need to remind myself that most people default to curiosity or concern, not criticism.