Even if I got rid of all the marginal productivity gains of my AI automation system, I’d still keep the automating of pulling in drafts and voice memos — that’s valuable in itself.11. I think that’s true of piping-proposals as well.

The deviation that Michael and I have now with our “logs”; his emergent career is based on writing about the craft of writing, so I understand he has to think about it analytically, as a pattern language, to make his product better. He’s passionate about that. His (new) personal site is about stringing together longer pieces and dropping seemingly his more “trivial” logs (a la breadcrumbs).

But with my writing, I realize so many of my ideas come on walks and bike rides, when I’m moving about in the world. Logs have remained this way of narrating my days — a forcing function to dip a bottle in the stream of consciousness and filter it into prose. From there the intention is to develop a system22. Much like the one that emerged as I draft Felt Places which helps me organize my thoughts, and allows me to fish for these fleeting in-the-moment captures. Of the different writing modes, the intuitive first-pass, non-editor mind that comes during these activities — the ones that shut off the judge — is invaluable and worth keeping sharp.