2024-09-20

  • 10:06 AM: what to do this morning? some options:

    • write prompts for MN’s Bitcoin explainer
    • write a note on salience; talk to AIs about it
    • finish attachment imports
    • ooh: exploring Syntopicon on Logos!
    • spend 25m sketching a journey map for project with Taylor
    • dig into BCI future possibilities… spend some fixe time writing out questions, brainstorming, etc

  • 10:10 AM: Alright. I’m going to start with a journey map for the project with Taylor. Gonna stay in notebook. See if I can see anything new.

  • half-pint of ice cream - eleni’s (anything but chocolate)

  • mayonnaise

  • raised toilet seat

  • room number 52-2

    • fifth floor of the hospital, post-op wing
    • 029FJF
7 + 2√21 + 3
10 + 2√21 = a^2 / b^2
√21 = a^2 - 10b^2 / 2b^2

Journal OCR

At my mom's in Portland today, taking care of her following her surgery to remove a tumor from her face. I arrived to an empty house yesterday. Unsettling. Smells like dog, but there's no dog. Medical equipment everywhere. A real feeling of death and purity, though, it's not time yet. Bleak. It's hard not to fast forward to when inevitably I'll fly up here, arrive at an empty home, and that's the way it will stop. It's hard to think about design work.

  • Math Academy reflections
  • the idea-centric memory system
  • Dynamic cloud reflections
  • Syntopicon demo
  • salience prompts
  • BCI thoughts

I'm tired of all these reflection essays. They feel like an indulgence of my year. Where's the new design work? I want to build!

And yet it doesn't really feel like I have enough time to dig into the Syntopicon before next week.

Maybe now is a good time to switch gears to thinking about BCI.

What questions do I have? What ideas? What do I want it for?

Working on Orbit feels bad in part because I know it's not the structure I ultimately want. I want to move towards the idea-centric memory system, Orbit feels like it's holding me back.

Maybe it's time to dig into that. Some forward-looking work to make this project with Ozzie feel less barren.

I wonder how Bret does email these days.

Last updated 2024-09-21.