writing more personally

I suppose its primary objectives are to be pretty & to be obscure ... and indeed, I found it pretty obscure.

everybody needs to read more minutes of books every day than minutes of video they watch. then, they each need to write a book. that way we'll all always have enough books to read. before there was endless video to serve as a yardstick for what not to do…

it is funny; i have learned more about the wider ad tech landscape in the time since le big g made me say goodbye urgently than i did in 18 years there. it wasn't my job!

caught a wild hare?

one thing i realized about needing to make apps: if your webapp does something cool or useful enough, people will just use that. the thing i realized was that i wanted to use midjourney so bad in 2022 that i installed discord, which i had never used. i ha…

or honestly BECAUSE you did

not that i haven't had plenty of thoughts ... being unemployed really makes you doubt the value of thoughts. i wish more people listened to my extremely unusual podcast: e47.net and i wish people would try my software.

had to write this somewhere to avoid spamming my cousin with a strand of "the thing is" text messages. figured maybe others might appreciate it too. so i made a harness; had a bunch of initial motivations since discarded and plenty that persist, but it is…

let me yell at you. what does chris walla, the producer and musician, mean when he says "burn ai to the ground?"

thank heavens i hedged my bets by playing the long game, i.e. trying to come up a piece of software that is useful today but should still be accessible and useful in 20 years. what's the rush?

i realized i can just set the repo to public and not really tell anyone until a few people have sanity-checked it. versus trying to get everything exactly right all at once. drizzle the launch across a timeframe. nothing good was ever built in a day (prob…