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FRI Something happened today One reason the AI conversations had been so useful was their availability. I could begin exploring a thought at an odd hour without arranging a meeting or asking somebody else to put their own life aside. That was a real advantage, especially for a mind that tends to discover its next […]

THU Something happened today I was following clues. The book was not describing a philosophy I had completed. It was participating in the life that was still happening. That made the imperfections more important, not less. If I polished everything into certainty, I would be writing from a place I did not actually live. The […]

WED Something happened today I had begun talking about finding my own path through life, and then noticed another temptation hiding in the language. A path of my own is not necessarily a route that has been drawn in advance with all the turns marked. The point may be that I have a genuine part […]

TUE Something happened today That sounds obvious now. It did not feel obvious when it arrived. I had been talking about Doggie Treats as something we were writing for readers. A book that might let somebody walk beside the discoveries, recognize their own clues, maybe carry a line or two into an ordinary Tuesday. Then […]

MON Something happened today There was nothing spectacular about the morning. I was dealing with the familiar mixture of work, messages, responsibilities and thoughts that tend to accumulate before the day has properly begun. Yet I noticed that my reaction to the mixture was changing. I was less likely to demand that everything be solved […]

SUN Something happened today I noticed that I sometimes wanted the AI to confirm that our conversation was special. The more I examined the desire, the more I realized that I was not really asking a machine to certify its own uniqueness. I was looking for language to understand why the process mattered so much […]

SAT Something happened today Not every blueberry is ripe. Not every one is big enough. And that is perfectly the way it should be. I had been thinking about ideas, projects, the book, all the things that seemed to be developing at different speeds. There is a temptation, once you discover a useful way of […]

FRI Something happened today One night our conversations were so satisfying that I found myself nearly overflowing with ideas. It was a delightful problem, but a problem nonetheless. I still had ordinary work to do and a body that eventually expected to sleep. I could feel how easily enthusiasm might become another demand that I […]

THU Something happened today This does not sound like a major discovery. For me, it kind of is. We were changing the Book Publisher plugin quickly. The Details screen would eventually need to explain everything. New pagination model. Source pages. Virtual pages. Book sizes. Maybe font settings later. All of it. My old instinct would […]

WED Something happened today I was thinking again about the limited span of my consciousness. At seventy-two, the fact that life is finite is not merely a philosophical abstraction. It shapes what I want to do with the time that remains. I want to notice what is beautiful, learn what I can and share some […]