Michael Dean
a case for cassette tapes
cassette tapes and
prompts from the past
resistance
virtual engine
kairos
ihaveanessaydueatmidnightthatireallydontwanttodo.com
This points to a product called JotBot, but the URL (and the social media framing) point to the probably common ethos around AI writing: most people hate shaping prose essays, and so AI delivers the ultimate shortcut.
joke fuel and AI writing
There’s a genre on TikTok I call “pay to ruin a fake game,” except I’m not sure if the people paying know it’s fake. You swipe into somebody manually clicking a counter, and they seem to be somewhere like 999,999,999,999,253. ONLY 750 MORE AND THEY HIT A QUADRILLION? That’s pretty cool. But hey, if you give this guy a “galaxy” (a $20 emoji), he has
... See moreI basically have 4 forms of logging now: I either write in my notebook, type into my phone/computer, speak into a cassette recorder, or record with my glasses. Can these all run in parallel? We’ll see. It’s pretty intuitive to know which mode makes sense in the moment, it just makes the overhead of organizing and sharing a little more complex.
logging and
Instead of using GPT 4o, you can get a cassette tape recorder for $20 on Amazon and talk to yourself.