Hiding email, new podcast, writing with AI, and managing lists
The last two weeks have been a fantastic whirlwind. For personal reasons I’ve been traveling, but I’m back at it and picking up the writing.
Following are a few pieces I’m really excited to share.
- Hiding my email - Maybe it’s the diluge of spam from supposedly reputable companies, or my general frustration with why my oil change company needs to send me five hundred emails reminding me to buy extra oil pans for Christmas, but I’m just fed up and done with sharing my email for anything but real human communication. So I’ve started using iCloud to generate one-off emails, which can be tracked and disabled if abused. Now I’m just trying to figure out how to have the same type of emails I share in person when someone aggressively demands it on the other side of the counter.
- Friend of the show - I’ve started a new podcast. One episode published so far, but I’m incredibly proud of it. My friend Devon Dundee and I talked about skill vs luck and how we got into our careers, and we had a 25 minute segment discussing where religion fits into our lives, and why it’s absolutely compatible with love and kindness in a world abused by false forms of supposed deities attempting to enforce coercion.
- ChatGPT is starting to become useful - Musings on how I’m getting ChatGPT to actually help me in my job. This will be useful if you’re in the same situation and are trying to understand how it can increase your productivity (a question itself with questionable value)
- Managing a todo list - The way I manage tasks is unique—to me at least, I’ve never seen someone else do it quite the same way—and I think it can help you too. Though productivity is a black hole waiting to suck up anyone who dares to follow its beckoning call, there is still some value in having systems in place to manage and sort ideas. I also wrote a followup piece if you found the first one interesting.
- AI and helping you write - A longer piece on the process I’m following to write, and where AI fits (and doesn’t fit) into that. The main gist is some writing should have zero AI input, some can be mixed, and for some it’s fine to lean on AI entirely. I’m looking for the balance in each.
Thank you for reading. I’m thinking next of turning this into a newsletter (thanks to a suggestion from my brother) so that folks who are interested can just get the weekly summary.
Have a great weekend.