Jack Baty Daily

Daily notes from Jack about everything

Sunday, October 30, 2022

🌫 Haze +38°F
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I wish every app wasn't trying to be a fully-formed todo app. It makes me want to try using every one of them for my tasks and ends up just confusing me further.


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I'm pretty much done thinking about "tools for thought". It quickly becomes an infinity of navel gazing and a complete waste of time. It's an easy topic for budding "influencers" because you don't actually need to know anything. All they need is to spend some time with a new bit of software and tell people how they should use it and the next thing you know they're selling an online course via their budding YouTube channel.


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This is fun. Enter some keywords and the site generates dozens of business name and logo ideas from them. https://namelix.com/


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I keep wondering if I've missed yet another boat with AI and ML. It occurred to me that I haven't even been looking for boats, so how could I have missed them?


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Using Tana can feel like data entry, and that's not how I want to write or take notes.


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I was trying to find some information about my favorite new browser and clicked a link to an article that looked like this...



That's an immediate click of the Back button. I don't care what's in the article, I'm not reading it.


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I believe web development has become mired in such complexity as to render it untenable. I am having trouble mustering the energy to care about any of it.


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The best way to lose something is to first over-think where to put it.