Media Consumer Cohorts and AI

I saw something about cohorts and AI usage and it got this whole idea stuck in my head so I decided to write it out and maybe it’s enough to make you think about how you feel about AI content itself and where it brings entertainment and value to you. Now that the “AI boom” has started to plateau and mature I see two broad cohorts of people when it comes to ingesting media and services. These are the consumers, not the creators. ...

November 22, 2024 · 3 min · Ame the Squirrel

The Union of Obsidian and Hugo

Preamble Since I am brining back this blog and plan on writing a lot more I wanted to make it a lot easier. Historically this blog has been written in Vim/NeoVim, which while being a very proficient editor, is not optimal for free flow text for me. An Idea Last year consolidated my journal and all of my notes into Obsidian. In the past I used MacJournal and then Day One for my journaling and Bear for my notes, but every time I would end up locked out of my data when trying to export to a new system. ...

November 15, 2024 · 4 min · Ame the Squirrel

2024 Returns

Oh wow. I haven’t written in my blog since the pandemic hit. Yikes. A lot has happened since then. With social media having fallen apart for years I thought I would spend some time to build this blog back up. I am going to try to spend more time adding smaller things to it, and putting more notes up here instead of only in my Obsidian document. It’s going to be a rough next four years, might as well spend it contributing. ...

November 14, 2024 · 1 min · Ame the Squirrel

It's hard to talk

The following is a stream of consciousness. It was originally meant as something more poetic, to try and share what social situations are like post transition. It is not meant as a call out post for any person or the conference I was at. I solely wish to share what my experience is like now, and offer some contrast to how it was. It’s hard to talk (as a trans person). ...

April 26, 2019 · 3 min · Ame the Squirrel

Systems are Not Always Easy Part 2: Unblocking

In part one of this post I talked about what I feel the hardest part of every system is, maintenance. I talked about identifying tasks that take up large amounts of mental stress and what you should maybe do with them. Hint, throw them out or defer them. What if you really need to do this thing though? ...

June 16, 2018 · 5 min · Ame the Squirrel

Systems are Not Always Easy Part 1

I’ve spent a lot of my time over the past years evangelizing the power of having a system and the David Allen Getting Things Done (GTD) method. One thing I haven’t talked much about is that while having a trusted system has huge advantages it doesn’t come for free. Like all systems it must be maintained or it breaks down slowly until one day it either stops working completely, or you’ve given up on it for it’s inefficiency. Having a system isn’t unique to GTD but it is my favored variant of system. There is a lot of GTD flavor and verbiage here but absolutely nothing in this post is unique to GTD, this will apply to most of the systems I have used. ...

June 15, 2018 · 5 min · Ame the Squirrel