LOGS

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.

There is a delicate art to editing in a way that conveys authenticity, capturing "moments" that resonate with both the artist's intent and the audience's perception.

In the context of multimedia experiences, editing is not merely a technical endeavor but an artistic one. It involves curating and assembling with a keen sensitivity to preserve the

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.

Intrigued to do observational creative expression (writing, photography). Work that forces me to keep my eyes open to things hiding in plain sight in day-to-day life; the paradoxes, the themes, commonalities, the absurdities. To see things in a way that we hadn't before.

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.

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.

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.

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.