Items I happen to view each day. Science, Technology, Management, Culture, and Writing

    This is my day book for this week. It is a log of things I see on the Internet.

This week: 31 March - 6 April, 2025

Summary of this week:

• The Russians are still in Ukraine
• The death tolls exceeds 2,000 in the Myanmar-Thailand earthquake
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Monday 31 March 2025

It appears that America now has vigilance committees that hunt pedophiles and hurt them physically. Lots of danger here.

Several of the current President's sons push big into crypto mining.

Thoughts on OpenAI's latest picture-drawing craze and Studio Ghibli-style images. Train on what is out there. What is out there is popular. Imitate what is popular. Some adults are surprised by all this. It is quite simple and predictable and predicted.

For better or worse, "LinkedIn is no longer a job search platform, it's a business networking platform." Perhaps business networking IS job searching and employee finding.

Foxconn will double the production of iPhones in India this year. China is an unreliable business partner. Big tech turns to the world's largest democracy and the world's most-populous nation.

Silicon Valley, DEI, and "rebranding." It is possible to improve without abusing. Let's hope folks find the way.

Current AI researchers groan and sigh at the current commercial approaches to AI.

Here is the 88-page report.

The knowledge worker, hailed as the future and present of the world, is declining.

More tales of woe inside Meta (Facebook). Silicon Valley is a long way from the rest of the world. People are held at gunpoint. People are killed. These things happen as the social media of America skips along.

Microsoft turns 50. It was not destined to succeed. Early employees tell tales.

Thoughts on revising book drafts.

Defining success for yourself as a writer. This goes back to the definition of "writer." If you write, you are a writer. If you want to be a writer...if you write, you are a success. If, instead, you want to make lots of money selling what you write, that is a different situation with a different definition and easy to measure. Succeeding at making lots of money selling what you write is, well, almost no one succeeds at that.

I completely disagree with this post. The author suggests spending your own money to "launch" your book. If money is involved, all money flows TO THE AUTHOR. Otherwise, this is just an expensive (the participant expends money all the time) hobby.

This writer loves the tool Notion.

Income from freelance writing is inconsistent at best (nonexistent at worst). Here are some tips to live in this world.

Singing the praises of the paper notebook. I love blank books. I find them to be the second-best book in the world (the Bible being the best).

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