Thinking

Whenever you look for something on Google you get an AI summary, and then you can look at websites and web pages for an in-depth human written answer. At the same time there are dozens of apps for Twitter, the Fediverse and more, but there are none for browsing blogs.

If I look up blog on the Apple App store I get minimal notes and ChatGPT as the first results, and then several non blogging apps. The Android app store is a little better but the first results are for Grok, Daynote, a piano app and a few apps like blogger, journiblog, wordpress and blogspace. All of these are apps for writing, rather than reading.

Every day I spend one to two hours thinking about what to write for my blog. Yesterday I noticed that Wordpress wants to get AI to draft the first version of posts using the AI model of our choice, as long as it’s American, and take away the hours of blank page syndrome.

If you’re working towards a deadline, and you’re writing for work, that might make life easier, but it might also make blogging less niche, less interesting, and more kitsch.

It rarely happens. I rarely forget my airpods at home, and when I do I usually turn around to get them. Yesterday I didn’t turn around. I went for my walk anyway. You might think “so what?” and you’d be right to. It doesn’t change much. I usually listen to podcasts and audiobooks, rather than music. I like my walks to be intellectually stimulating, as well as physically good for me.