If it's challenging stuff and I want to make notations I'll do both, I'll listen first and then get a reading copy. It all counts and a huge part of our HUMANNESS was listening to people tell us stories!!!! Everyone shut up!!!!!!
My #1 unhinged opinion is that you either read Hitchhiker’s Guide or The Illuminatus Trilogy as an adolescent and that became the foundation of your entire personality (42’s vs 23’s) In this essay I will
I read Infinite Jest and mostly skimmed the parts on the Quebec separatist movement and entirely skipped the footnotes and I consider that book read and I enjoyed it
I’m pretty depressed and I’ve trying to get out of it today by drinking a lot of coffee and trimming my bangs and listening to a podcast about incels, nothing’s worked so far
NEW: I wrote about Dallas City Hall. Designed by I.M. Pei, it's an incredible feat of architecture that was meant to embody progressivism and a new start after the JFK assassination. At the end of the month, city leaders could vote to tear it down: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
![As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ugcmot4f3ool6cottht63wx4/bafkreierpoqvjgg5hqx3zhtlfmvrfq3vaakb3h5wppcdzrvs5jh3zr7ce4@jpeg)
