Daily notes are useless. The value of a note is directly proportional to the number of times it is visited. That value is exponentiated each time a note is shared. Daily notes aren't revisited and they aren't shared.

First, daily notes are only useless if you don't have a system or workflow that makes use of them.

Second, they don't have to be shared to be useful. Depending on the system/workflow you have, they still have value. But the key is, you need to have system/workflow in the first place. Besides, unless the blog/website is setup like a daily journal, nobody is sharing their daily notes to the public. Typically what people would do is, write a bigger piece by expanding on ideas they wrote down in their daily notes.

Third, having dates attached to specific thoughts, ideas, events, etc... can be helpful when 6 months into the future, you're trying to understand why something is broken again. The dates give you context and clues as to what could have been happening back then. Sure, you can include all these notes into a single note, but then that means you already have a system/workflow that works for you.

I have one note that I visit all the time when I am working. It's a single Markdown file that I constantly update. It's essentially a to-do list that just helps me juggle all the things that I need to track. I call it focus.md

This is the system/workflow that works for you. This is why you don't feel the need to write daily notes.

Sidenote: I understand wanting to blog anonymously, I do it in this blog too. But not having contact information seems a bit odd. It's like you don't want your ideas challenged or even discussed.

#NoteTaking #Blogging

Here's a video about two Hispanic men, flying the American flag, in America, getting attacked and harassed by protesters flying a different country's flag. How is this not news worthy? How is this not blog worthy? How is this acceptable behavior in American soil?

#Riots #Politics

Everyone needs to take a timeout and get their emotions under control. Jeez, it's looking like a warzone over there.

#Riots

A plea to write.as and other small blogging platforms: stay out of this mess please.

I'm reminded of this post I wrote a year ago. Be careful what you say on the internet folks. You never know who's going to be coming after you. I'm going to go offline now.

• College graduates are in trouble of landing jobs, because entry-level stuff they are supposed to work on, can now be offloaded to AIs.
• Senior level employees on the other hand, are now expected to learn how to use AI, so that they can offload menial tasks to an AI, and work on other stuff. So instead of decreasing the amount of work they have, it actually makes management think they now have more time to work on something else, thereby increasing their workload.
• AIs that feed off large datasets are vulnerable to bad data getting into the system.
  • In a similar vein, there is also the chance that people's PII data or other sensitive data can make it into an AI's dataset.
• With the advent of AIs that can generate beautiful images and artwork, the real artists with the skills to create beautiful art can now be relegated to the sidelines. To add insult to injury, it is entirely possible that their art was part of the dataset that the AI was working off. So not only are their jobs in jeopardy, their artworks are being stolen too, “remixed” into a different image.
• Musicians or actors don't need to be alive for their voice or image to be used in new media. I once heard an AI produced cover, of a popular song, from a popular rock vocalist who has already passed away. Technologically amazing, yes? But should we be doing this kind of stuff, no!
• In the previous US election, we dealt with fake news. I like to think we are over that now. But hold your horses, because in this coming election, you have to deal with AI generated news, and it will be even harder to tell if its fake or not. FML.
• There's probably more that I missed. But is the list above, taken together, not insanity already?

From my admittedly narrow perspective, the only field I see where AI can be of help, is in the medical field and maybe the socio-economic field. If it doesn't replace people's jobs and still improves the lives of everyone, then that is a good outcome.

But if it does the opposite. If it takes away jobs, while making corporations rich, then we need to ask ourselves: Is the net gain/benefits we get from using AI, a worthwhile trade over a world where services are rendered by real human beings? You know, people like you and me? I think not.

But clearly that is not what is happening online nowadays. I say that because as soon as somebody shares their beliefs, if those beliefs happen to be in conflict with what the internet mob believes, then it won't be long before that somebody gets cancelled.

It doesn't really matter whether you are on the left, or right or even in the middle. You say something the folks on the internet don't agree with, you're done. It's an ugly phase to be in, this modern society of ours. Like we cannot even have a difference of opinion.

Everyone is expected to exhibit tolerance for everyone else's beliefs, but hold on, that only applies if those beliefs are acceptable to a group of people who wield the power online.

Where is the freedom of speech in that?

The next question to ask then, is why do they want to be distracted all the time?

The irony here is that cancel culture came out of internet culture through the use of social media. And wasn't social media supposed to give everyone a voice? With cancel culture being waged online, the only people who have a voice are those on the far right and far left of the political spectrum. What about everyone else in the middle? We have no voice because we're too worried about getting cancelled.

It makes me wonder, what if I do that too?

Well, I'll tell you what will happen.

If you're a regular Joe like me, maybe living a bit of a sedentary lifestyle, you know what I'm talking about, people with a desk job, people who spend time binging on Netflix or YouTube, or people who play too much video games, or people who lose track of time doom scrolling on their phones, people who aren't exactly great examples of what fit and healthy looks like, I'll tell you what will happen... you'll end up with repetitive strain injury.

Stay away from videos like that.

If you're not a healthy person now, but you want to be, start out slow. Pick an exercise that you are interested in, do it for 5 reps, then see how you feel after. If you feel like you could do more next time, then do a little more later in the day, or the next day. The point is, you need to build up your body to be able to handle multiple reps of a certain exercise. You cannot just go all in and force yourself to do 30 push-ups a day just to see what will happen. I'm telling you from experience, you'll get repetitive strain injury. Take it slow and build up from there.