Notes for August 29–September 5

As many people have remarked, the moat between ideas and technical execution is narrower than ever, and that has a number of consequences–both when it comes to investment (in this case, personal, although I am collecting war stories…) and focus. And I think I need to be more selective about what gets my evenings, since I am back at work and already spending too much of my free time building things on a computer. I Need To Stop Using AI Why? Because I am right back where I was before my break, spending too little time doing anything but sitting at a computer, or using a computer to do things that only work on a computer. I keep having ideas, and even though I finish my workdays achy and drained, I inevitably get caught up in the excitement of being able to build stuff quickly. And since my free Codex subscription is due to end this month, I’m trying to make the most of it… I need to get back to electronics, hardware, and reading (maybe even music) as a hobby, and stop spending so much…