So yesterday, before I got going, I made a list of things to do. It was pretty aggressive. One of the things I had on the list was “write a post about what I plan for the day/week ‘etc'”. I got maybe one and a half of those items done, and progress towards one of the other things that is a coding task that will take some time anyway.
However, I ended up on one call I hadn’t expected, and a few more calls which I prompted (and therefore expected) from people based upon that first call. At least one of those phone calls was from a time zone 3 hours behind mine, and as it went into the small hours, it also went well into the dregs of my physio-mental reserves (as I realized later, kind of hard to see it in the moment). The conversation started focusing on how to fit the topic of AI into discussions about a system I’ve been building the past few weeks while trying to sell the concept to interested parties.
I’m not really into the AI hype, but cannot deny that there is hype, and that generative models can produce scads of output faster than a room of trained monkeys. In retrospect, I fumbled for a conversation grenade pin I shouldn’t have gone near, and then tried to justify it to myself; but I see now it was my own limits I was hitting while feeling the accumulated weight of my own plans failing, and dragging me into a place (discussion about AI) that I had no more wherewithal to deal with at that moment.
I only hope I haven’t caused too much damage to an otherwise decent relationship.
So here’s what I had planned to put in my plan posting yesterday (based on notes in a paper notebook I have):
- write something about how posting about C# on Linked-In can lead to all sorts of people saying all sorts of things, and again how Linked-In is not really for technical people to show their chops, and further: what is Linked-In even for to the general population besides to have a presence and show one’s existence ?
- write something about how AI and machine filtering are on the receiving end of job-application and resume analysis, and now also on the front-end as well, so most job-applications submittal over the web are basically a demonstration of how well one can use AI tools to tickle an AI processing system without inadvertently and silently triggering AI rejection because AI was used to generate the inputs
- write something about how I’m making another attempt at getting all the way through Ludwig von Mises “Human Action – A Treatise on Economics”, this time with the restored scholar’s edition, because my hardbound 3rd edition needs repair
- put some stuff together about The Emotion Machine specifically about “levels of mental activity”, and how most LLM output can be thought to be operating in the two lowest levels…and then to also stitch in Julian Jaynes ideas about how consciousness as we think of it, can only “exist” with a sufficiently self-reflective narrative language structure, and does not encompass all of mentality
- contact some talent placement people against whom I should be trying harder to proffer myself as “talent”
- code more of my “ownership unencumbered” warehouse operations system kernel (that I’ve been working on for 3.5 weeks or so), after having lost yet another iteration of code I wrote for hire to yet another corporate fire-sale
- write my plans in a blog-post (self-referenentially)
Pursuit of Value 