Category: Daily Measure
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I’m Afraid of an Audience I Don’t Even Have
I pay for this website to exist. And yet, I don’t make any effort to post consistently. In fact, I’ve done more to mangle what lives here and how the site looks and feels than to write my thoughts. I spend too much time playing around with AI and site design, and I forgot that…
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Balancing AI Output and Human Creativity
Mistakes may rule as we move forward with the experiments of AI. I’ve been using ChatGPT and Grok occasionally on this blog and other blogs I maintain–kinda, lol. I’m just experimenting, hoping to understand how it can help and, for sure, how it can hurt—meaning, how it can manipulate the conversation depending on how it’s…
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Just Shoot the Puck: Writing Without Perfection
Writing is a tough daily habit for me—not because I dislike it, but because I always feel like I need to have something perfect to say. It’s like I’m looking for the perfect set of passes before I take a shot on goal, instead of just shooting the puck. I don’t consider myself a writer.…
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What Happens When You Never Touch Money?
Originally inspired by this post on X I just saw this post on X, and it got me thinking—about money. Specifically, about what it means to grow up in a world where you might never actually touch it. The post mentioned Gen Z not handling physical money. And sure, they know what money is—they see…
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Thoughts on a Quiet Labor Day
I haven’t been writing much lately, which is not good. I’m primarily jotting thoughts and ideas but nothing of substance. Unfortunately, nothing on this blog has substance yet. But substance was in my thoughts when I pulled out my credit card to pay for the web hosting. Needless to say, this post isn’t going to…
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Blog Update 1
I’ve been working on minor design aspects of the blog. This evening, I added a site icon and logo to the header. I want to keep the design as simple as possible, primarily black and white with little pops of color. The red of the cardinal fits this aesthetic perfectly. The cardinal is significant because…
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Time to Wake Up
I’m tired of dreaming. The illusions of life no longer interest me. It’s time to wake up. There is no plan for this blog. My website is a place where I can dump my thoughts and share things I find interesting. It’s also a place to write and learn as I go through the daily…