Chey’s Lounge

We are getting close to midnight and I haven’t really written anything coherent today. That’s not good! Here I am trying to change that. No, not trying, I’m changing it. All you can do is something I guess. So I’m doing something. I wish I knew what to do more that would provide more value to people. I want to provide a service and be compensated fairly for it. I don’t necessarily want to get rich as fast and as easily as possible, but that seems to be seen as a pinnacle of success, the smallest amount of work for the greatest profit. I don’t think that is so bad as long as results are excellent. The problem is results oftentimes decline overtime as shareholders demand consistent profit increases no matter the cost. That makes me sad. I want things to consistently get better. I just feel lost as to how I can contribute to it. I guess you start by making yourself better. Not sure if writing is making me better, but I really don’t think it’s making me worse, so that’s good. 

I think I first got the idea to write 1,000 words a day from a professor in college once. I definitely didn’t take his advice then, and I’m not really taking it now considering I am not reaching 1,000 words on these posts, but I’m doing something. I definitely should be practicing writing as a skill. It’s one of the few things Im okay at. The problem is the AI stuff… Speaking of AI – everything is an algorithm (did you appreciate the timely em dash there?). This thought, like at least one or two in every post I’ve written prior to this one, may need to be explored a little further. You know what, I’m in my infancy on this. One day it’s gonna be so big and all of the 7 future readers will demand I rewrite most of these and actually go in depth where I say I have more thoughts. But for now, if everything is an algorithm then of course AI is going to be effective. What triggered this thought about algorithms was comedy. Yesterday, I was thinking about comedy and what makes a successful comedian. About how an autistic comedian have great jokes but an awful personality. How is that possible? I think by studying comedy and applying the algorithmic concepts one learns to telling jokes. Where that can fall short is on the fly where it takes time to formulate a perfect response if one doesn’t have the wit and/or comedic timing to roll with the flow of the situation he or she finds themselves in. But yeah, are individuals’ brains wired in a certain, basically algorithmic way? If so, can we alter the algorithm?

Another thing I was thinking of today is being  afraid to write openly and filtering myself despite no real reason to. I’m thinking it’s probably something that will fade away in time if I keep writing. Maybe not though. I’m not really trying to say anything controversial, at least that’s not in the plans as of now, but I still feel nervous. Now that I’ve said that out loud (typed with my fingies on a screen), I feel like it’s leading me to this question: who does that benefit? Does speaking my mind to basically no one on the internet really affect anything outside of my little sphere of influence of myself? Is there  way I can program this feeling out of myself? Probably, so I guess that answers my question as to whether the algorithm our individual brains run on can be altered.