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18 films
A01
One of my watchers can report zero tasks found and be completely right, while the most important thing I said that day sits unheard in a journal. Zero on the operations side is not zero on the meaning side. The system's own shorthand for that is operational zero is not semantic zero. Not my sentence originally. It came out of a correction I made when the machine confused an empty task list with a finished job, and I kept it because I paid for it. The film shows both lanes on one map, and a real day where the difference got caught.
A02
One note goes in. Two different things have to happen to it. A narrow pass pulls out the to-dos, the money lines, the dates. A separate listening pass asks what the note meant. The raw note never gets edited by either one. That rule is load bearing in my system. Anything transformed lives in its own labeled copy with a pointer back, so my words stay mine. The film runs one safe demo note through both lanes, start to finish, and shows where each result lands.
A03
maybe I should just yield the course from the content I make every day rather than collect and make. But we can still do that too, because we AI-powered baby.
I said that into my phone in May. Ten weeks later the machine read a narrow slice of my recent captures and decided what I offer is a community. My own larger record said otherwise, and the sentence above was sitting in the system the whole time, transcribed and never made load bearing. I corrected it, and the correction became a standing rule. This film is the postmortem. Not blame theater. Just what it looks like when the system gets my thesis wrong, and my own record is what fixes it.
AW04
Instead of me pointing you and you learning things, you should be on top of these essentials.
I said that to my own system, and it became a work order. More than a million of my recorded words read in one sweep series, sorted onto shelves, then checked against what the system thought it knew about me. It found real gaps. It also caught its own errors, including seven real conversations a duplicate-detection bug had nearly thrown away. The film shows the sweep map itself, wins and misses on one page.
A04
Content about how I don’t leave home till my Claude usage is complete as showing my life
That is the whole idea, exactly as I wrote it to myself in May. Not a rule I recommend and not a productivity method. A shape my day took on its own, which I noticed and wanted to show.
A05
I have 8 IG accounts and here’s why
And anywayt to track my 8 IG accounts? I want to balance them.
The first line is a note title I wrote to myself in January and never made. The second is me asking my own system for a way to keep them balanced, three weeks later. The count moves depending on how you count, which is its own honest part of this. Each one exists so a different kind of thing has somewhere to go.
A06
also just so i see the value of these runs, can you tell me if this run actually did bring value and i wasnt actually heard? i dont know anyone else who is running heard LIKE ME. IDK IF ITS BECAUSE THE WAY I WAS BUILDING MAYBE WASNT EFFICIENT AS THEM.
Typed mid-build in July, to the machine, in one breath. Both halves are in there and both stay: not knowing anyone else doing this, and not knowing whether that means I am doing it wrong. The question at the front is the real one and I have not closed it.
A07
For all the cull and screenshots albums, I think we should have note drafts started for me to copy paste and continue writing into, i just want there to be a title in the note to indicate what’s going on and what collection/album im working and writing and putting notes and uploading pictures about since Theres many, im going at the slowly a few items at a time. […] Btw this is a brilliant implementation, I think we’ve built something so impressive in ABEOS idk how many people are using AI to be this optimized haha. I feel like im working for myself and it’s just great. I’m redeeming years of effort that felt wasted by getting to revisit and schedule action with you. Thank you so much.
That is one note, written in July. It starts as an ordinary request for a small thing and ends somewhere I did not plan on going. Nobody asked me to say the last part. It is what the whole build has been for, and I only found that out by writing it down.
A08
something interesting I found is So for my human design the energy I get one of the ways at least is In an area where everybody's working Like I kind of like siphon their energy But then when they leave I would since I don't have the defined centers or whatever I Can't continue But with this whole AI system I'm building it's like There doesn't need to be a person physically doing it It's like I perform better just because it is working alongside me
Dictated in June, punctuation and all. The hedges are mine and they stay: one of the ways at least, or whatever. It is a thing I noticed about myself, not a mechanism I am claiming for anybody else.
A09
I think that's my issue with coaches, like if they're not very aware that it's not just being broken that you see over there. I know now we can get into semantics that, you know, because otherwise it's just an accurate view, which the client also, or some of the clients will understand that it's not just them being broken, like there's a lot more to this — an expert coming in and overriding their life, it's just ridiculous to me.
One paragraph, said in one go, and the qualifier in the middle is doing as much work as the ends. I am not describing a villain. I am describing a posture I cannot take.
A10
And is it okay for me to learn like asking for examples, or am I not using my brain? Am I giving it to AI? Like I want a super honest answer, or like especially being ADHD and having my brain.
Two months later, typed instead of spoken: By the way, am I being too dependent on AI if we have this go on, or do you think this is good? […] I know the basics. I know the basic arguments of how when I let AI handle these parts of my life, number one, my productivity is increasing and I get to do other big things, or, you know, there's the whole thing of having ADHD, so this supports me.
A week after that: But my work has been lazy or I use AI to prompt ai. I don’t need to learn that skill?
Three times, three months, and I answer it differently every time. It is not answered here either.
A11
we need to fix your memory,,,there weere so many errors when i checked what you know about me, but i got to busy to fix that, i hope the chatgpt export we’re doing will hlep you know me better and correct those too. or we can manually correct that as well. its a big deal, ive been tight with chat gpt for al ong time and it knkew me so its a move to come to you, so its right that you know me i think.
Typed in June, one run, typos and all. The complaint and the conclusion are in the same breath and I am not separating them. It is about how much history you hand over when you change where your thinking lives.
A12
talk about how it almost loses you credibility with some people, but I don't even like doing quizzes by myself, I almost can't. But my AI does it for me, it knows me. And I partner with it amazingly that way. So it's like, you'll still get the unique genius, but that gets facilitated through support I need.
February, one take. I say the cost out loud and then I do not apologize for it. That is the whole thing. It sits downstream of the question I keep asking and never answer, except here I have stopped asking.
A13
hey claude, i respect you, you dont have to sound people pleasing like this okay, thats how i talk when i have a mask on, actually no, even i dont talk like that, so lets not waste energy on this okay, "you nailed it! etc.. it doesnt feel like a real convo, i feel like im being managed or feared)
If I get an answer that tries to make me feel good, I’d honestly rather NOT have it. Know it’s not your responsibility and that I don’t fall based on your confidence or approval of my ideas, I want that pressure off of you when we speak and hope you can remember that.
The first one is from June, typed in the middle of a session. The second is from December, six and a half months before it, and nobody asked me for it.
A14
i see so many claude code ig tuturioals, and i thought iw as special for building dsomethinsg, it seems everyones building somethigna nd i wonde rwhat it is. is everyone builidng a second brain? what's going on
Typed fast in April while scrolling. The typos are what the speed looks like. I have not answered it since.
A15
i want to actually affrim them in how annoying and frustrating it is with claude and just show them they dont need anyone, that they can build themselves at their own pace and that they can look at "tip of the day" and ask claude for it in their own words
Written in June, to my own system, about how I want this to land on somebody else.
A16
my conviction with regards to using AI a lot, despite how people think it's bad for the environment, maybe rightfully so, is I think I'm open to the idea that spiritually, that was meant for this time to be used that way. And, yeah, almost like a divine timing thing, because I don't expect everything to be logical and to make sense in my spirituality.
Said in May. The concession stays in. I did not decide the cost isn't real.
A17
the whole purpose of the iphone 15pro max apartf rom the opprotunity is to create calm through beautiful rick colors, warmth etc, i want it to feel relaxing to watch my reels, to kinda stop the world.. honeslty my floors are pretty but i dont have great furnityre right now
June, mid-thought, about what I want a reel to do to somebody watching it. The floors line stays in.
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