a few weeks ago i wrote about how i’m all-in on AI at work but barely using it in my own life… and now i have some progress.

i cycled through many systems and tools, including many variations of AI implementations but they all tend to shape into something that covers the work area 100% but personal area maybe 5% at best. my main problems were inbox zero, follow ups, personal relationships, my personal commitments and curiosities, ideas, accountability on creative and health related goals… and many more. but this time, i blocked a whole sunday to solve this problem and for the last 9 days i’m using what i built that day.

it’s basically an LLM living on a cheap VPS, communicating with me over telegram and has the context of everything basically. it uses git version control to commit the memory, the logs, journal, and many other context files multiple times a day, so that i can spin up a new instance from any point of time in its life. i can even build other tools to map out the progress during its lifetime…

now, the key part was/is how to shape it of course… the shape of its soul. at first i started with some existing tools out there but they were too opinionated which would take too much time to understand and shape to my own needs.

i named it daimon… the stoic concept of your inner guiding spirit, the part of you that knows your pattern. also a nod to eudaimonia, being in good standing with that spirit. felt right.

anyways… i will share more in time, the more i experience it.

side note: i do not like treating my life, a single whole thing, having personal and work, two separate big areas… however, how to put that into words when needed etc. is another topic i’d like to dig into, later…

There has never been a better time to multi-task ever in human history… To all multi-taskers out there, salut!

started with Escape from Pluto by William Oberfield… a short sci-fi story, liked it more than expected.

one thing led to another. searched the author, found his other stories, stumbled on the golden age of science fiction… and then kept digging.

then I found this thing called podcast theater. there are a bunch of science fiction audio drama shows on Apple Podcasts.

this is what I’m doing this week.

also excited about the possibilities of this new thing, audio drama podcasts… sound design, music, story, cover art, … so many interests in one place. these kind of things get me excited. a lot.

Clarity may not be the goal but a tool only… Such as the creativity, too. Not sure if both can be used at the same time though. When you have clarity, you lack creativity, and vice versa.

Not sure if it’s clarity versus creativity… Maybe it’s about the ratio..

This morning, I felt this amazing excitement, inspiration, energy… The music I’m listening to felt different, the things I read felt different, the things I’m doing felt different. Why? Don’t know… But here’s, as far as I can tell, what was unique about it:

• Sunday calmness… Even though I work all the time, the optionality of Sunday, is a bit different I guess
• From yesterday, I forgot to close the window in my office at night and the AC was not working from the day before… When I jumped in to the office early in the morning, it was cold, very cold… I immediately turned on the AC and closed the window but it took 2-3 hours until I was warm inside… I had my hands in my pockets as much as I can…
• Amazing new music discovery
• I was multi-tasking, the great sin… yes, I’m a sinner…
• I was in the mood of “whatever I can do today, it’s all good and a plus” — the optionality, again

I discovered this album in my Apple Music homepage. There was a section named “Modern Classical”… I didn’t know what it meant and still don’t… I started listening to this album, and started writing imprisoned by the formula… it was good… felt good. I can’t say whether it was this album that put me into the flow or not but I can say it was one of the factors, for sure…

I’m not sure what this genre is… It was listed under modern classical but the album’s genre is also labeled as electronic… Not sure how to label it, but listening to this and seeing it listed under modern classical makes me want to go deeper into modern classical…

The track Two Pages is something… Hits hard and somehow makes it feel like having fireworks exploding in my brain… It’s an amazing track…

Bruce Brubaker and Max Cooper… Who are these guys? Definitely worth a research.

what if I merge Pare and Defect into a new tool? a background image, layered defects and glitches, posterize, shapes and colors… tempting…

Feels good when I give what I have, and then a bit more… Whether it’s material, spiritual and intellectual.

Everyone can cook but we still eat out… It’s mostly even more expensive to eat out and we love it all… It’s about connection, skill and taste variety, socializing and sharing… Having the means and the skills of cooking yourself did not eliminate eating out, not at all. On the contrary, it put the experience, eating out, into a more meaningful place.

AI gave us all a kitchen… Amazing. Now, lets cook ourselves some food and then meet at a restaurant, occasionally… Or invite each other for dinner.

No need to make people bigger, better, or greater than they actually are. And no need to make them smaller, worse, or lesser either.

But still… I fail at this.

Talking too much cultivates fear and doubt, doing cultivates love.

Execution is love.