A man in the Florida panhandle once drove to Miami and back with a tape recorder and mailed himself a course. Friday I've got five hours to Texas and a phone.
To Miami and Back
Tag: productivity
The Hunting Trip
A guy at church asked whether AI could pull the rabbit trails out of his meetings. I told him in five minutes. On the drive home my wife pointed out I'd just demonstrated the thing I've been building all year.
I Told AI To Edit My Book. It Rewrote My Plot.
I handed over a finished manuscript and asked AI to help me edit it. It rewrote passages and changed plot points, and it was right to — I never said what I meant by "edit." What that cost me, and what it taught me about listening to people.
Thirty Copies
Around 2013 I was very good at Excel, and Excel was slowly ruining me. The job needed SQL. I had built SQL up in my head into a wall — I'm a business person, I'd say, not a technical person, and they've got me doing technical things. It'll take too long. It's too hard. I'm … Continue reading Thirty Copies
Tend the Yard
Day 68 of 280 | The 7-40 Challenge I spent over six hours outside today. Not sunbathing. Working. We hauled tree clippings to the dump. I mowed the entire yard. We hung gates on my wife’s garden. And by the time I came inside, I was sunburned, sore, and more satisfied than I’ve been in … Continue reading Tend the Yard
