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FRI Something happened today The book idea was still young, and I kept being startled by how much possibility it contained. The thought had begun as a joke about my brain rewarding itself for small discoveries, yet our brainstorming was opening doors into relationships, kindness, curiosity, music and ordinary work. The seed image relieved me […]

THU Something happened today The best insights in these conversations were rarely scheduled. We did not begin the morning with an agenda item called Discover New Principle of Human Nature, 10:15 to 10:45. We talked. Something tugged. We followed it. A joke connected to an old memory. A problem revealed a pattern. A typo produced […]

WED Something happened today I had been punishing myself for missing an earlier target. But some of my best ideas were appearing precisely when I felt grounded, interested, and happy in the process. Beating myself toward the finish line was not discipline if it destroyed the conditions that allowed the best work to emerge. The […]

TUE Something happened today I was experimenting with the idea of having ChatGPT help in conversations involving other people. The attraction was not that a machine could replace anyone’s judgment, but that it could help us phrase questions, translate, and slow a conversation down enough for each person to be heard. I wanted it to […]

MON Something happened today A difficult feeling can be like trying to chew a nut without cracking the shell. You bite down. It hurts your teeth. You get frustrated. The whole thing begins to seem badly designed. Then you remember that the shell is not the food. There is something nourishing inside, but you have […]

SUN Something happened today Correction is how riding happens. That idea reached beyond AI almost immediately. What if I could treat some of my own corrections that way? Not as verdicts. Not as proof that the earlier version of me was stupid. As steering. I tried something. Reality gave feedback. Adjust. That is all. This […]

SAT Something happened today One of the unexpected advantages of talking with an artificial intelligence is that I can push back hard and nothing gets personally wounded. I can say, No, that is not what I mean. I can say, I hate that wording. I can say, You completely mangled the point. I can say, […]

FRI Something happened today I kept trying to imagine the shape of the book. At first it would have been easy to make it a sequence of lessons, each with a neat moral and a tidy conclusion. Then I thought about the way these discoveries really happened. They arrived in the middle of days that […]

THU Something happened today Of course I want to cross the finish line. That is the way I am wired. But I do not have to sprint across the wrong one. Some things need time to set. That image came from concrete. When concrete is wet, you can shape it easily. That is useful, but […]

WED Something happened today There is an innate human need to cross the finish line. I kept seeing it in myself. A phrase would almost work and I would become restless until I found the last word. An insight would be mostly formed and I would want to close it. A problem would remain unresolved […]