How can people stand living in such close proximity to hundreds, thousands of other people as they do in big cities like London or New York? 

• How does one cope with the knowledge that all around you infinitely complex lives are being lived? 

  • Everything that has happened to them, everything that will. 

    • How do you compute that without going insane?

Maybe I’m oversensitive. 

• Probably I’m oversensitive. 

  • Most likely I’m oversensitive. 

Will generative AI ever be able to conjure a genuine human emotional response?

• If no, is it because we have souls or are otherwise special in a way that no computer can approximate?

• If yes, are we just meat computers?

• Other

If you’re over 35 and only listen to music from your youth, you’ve given up on life.

• My guy, there’s SO MUCH MUSIC OUT THERE.

Working with someone does not mean you have to like them.

• Conversely, working with someone does not mean you don’t have to like them either. 

  • Addendum: just because someone is in a senior position at work, it doesn’t mean they know what they’re doing or are particularly skilled.

A lot of tv shows feel like content (derogatory) because the only purpose of the continuing story is to keep you subscribed to the service it’s available on.

So many artists have to cram true art into the confines of a capitalist invention that it’s hard to tease out where the art begins and the advertisement starts.

How do you quantify something that makes you feel something?

• How do you quantify feelings?

  • I don’t want to have to justify making someone feel something.

I miss David Lynch.

• Still.

I’m sick of staring at my phone, waiting for a quarter that will never drop.

• I’m staring at my phone too much.

Better Call Saul is better than Breaking Bad, despite what the New York Times will tell you.

• What else could they be lying about?

Hardcore punk is amazing but I’m feeling increasingly left behind in a scene that’s taken over by the young folks. 

• As I should be, I suppose.

• I guess I’m just getting older.

Photography is soul healing (as is most art-in-practice), but I’m getting bored with taking nature photos. 

• I need a project.

Fashion is way more interesting and less shallow than I always thought. What you wear is a statement of who you are and what you care about. It’s not just the shapes and colours, it’s the materials, the functionality and the history of the garments. 

• I find fashion fascinating now. 

  • Fashionating. 

This is low effort writing.

• But I kind of dig it?

• Very therapeutic.

• Is this journaling?

• Is this therapy?

Less but more cohesive thoughts next time.

• I think.