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Published: 2025-06-28
Of AI and Washing Machines
TL;DR: Washing machines do alot of work for us humans. Recently, so does AI. The work saved by both these things differs greatly. The important difference is how the work saved relates to our purpose as humans. Washing machines free you from the toil of labor. AI frees you from the toil of thought and process of making.
Published: 2025-06-28
People write different
TL;DR: Some people will take long to wrestle with ideas than others give them the space to ingest and organize.
Published: 2025-06-03
AI Memes Don't Count
TL;DR: If AI can make good enough art then why should we continue making art? In a world where anything can be generated, what is the worth of doing something. Well, it's the worth you put in it by choosing it. So, choose something you care about and do it.
Published: 2025-06-02
To Outlive or to seek life
TL;DR: Fun how etymology can bake in philosophies of individualism versus collectivism.
Published: 2025-04-11
A Fish in Water
TL;DR: A dissection of social skills and strategies of a new higher-up at my job.
Published: 2025-03-25
Of Currents
TL;DR: Any cup of water taken from the river isn't the river. Any stone, fish, or bend taken from the river won't disturb its being. The river is the flux of life through this slice of the world you see. I'm water, not a river. As a river must flow: water must flow on. So change is not only healthy but necessary.
Published: 2025-02-15
MVVM understandings
TL;DR: Some notes on my breakthroughs in undersanding of the MVVM architecture.
Published: 2025-02-01
What can I be proud of?
TL;DR: College was a big undertaking, but it wasn't really hard. Well it was hard but only in a way that challenged skills I had. Things that I look back on and feel proud of have forced me to gain skills or deepen ones I had. In the end, things that make us proud to do them challenge us to grow.
Published: 2025-01-18
Hey! Weren't you doing advent of code?
Published: 2025-01-15
A tentative list of core tenets
TL;DR: This is a list of the things that I believe in this world. Feel free to hold me to them. Basically, be kind, pay attention, and call your shot.
Published: 2024-12-10
Yes I am doing Advent of Code
TL;DR: It may seem of little practical value to spend valuable work time on a frivolous challenge. However, doing things you like for the reason that they are fun is worth it enough. More of this in my answer to my colleague's cynicism over participation in a Christmas coding challenge.
Published: 2024-12-01
I Who Have Never Known Men
TL;DR: A story of someone who has never known our world teaching us about ourselves.
Published: 2024-11-03
On Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
TL;DR: A digestions of a conversation between a colleague and I about Maslow's Hierachy of needs and whether it is too restrictive in defining how we chase our needs.
Published: 2024-11-03
What does it mean to be a Good Cat
TL;DR: How can we help our cats live more full lives? How does a cat living by their nature inform what a full life is? How does this inform how we can live fuller lives?
Published: 2024-10-24
Who is Thaddeus Snaatch?
TL;DR: To combat my weak improv skills and my lack of experience, I dive into the back story of my character in a DnD campaign.
Published: 2024-09-01
If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura
TL;DR: Is giving up the reason for living worth living for?
Published: 2024-05-01
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
TL;DR: The magic of child hood is fleeting especially for those who lived it.