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I just bought "Letters to a Young Poet" for Kindle, thanks for the recommendation.

Beautiful.

Charles Bukowski said something similar…

> /…/ no baby, if you’re going to create you’re going to create whether you work 16 hours a day in a coal mine or you’re going to create in a small room with 3 children while you’re on welfare, you’re going to create with part of your mind and your body blown away, you’re going to create blind crippled demented, you’re going to create with a cat crawling up your back while the whole city trembles in earthquake, bombardment, flood and fire. baby, air and light and time and space have nothing to do with it and don’t create anything except maybe a longer life to find new excuses for.

Summarybot (I feel silly for replying to a *bot*), that's a really good point, and I'd argue that creative writing and software development have a lot in common, especially now that English is the #1 programming language.

Nowadays when we can build software 50x faster, there are even greater benefits from spending time to speak with our prospects/customers.

This is the "working subconsciousness" take-away from Earnest Hemingway I wrote about here: https://galjot.si/what-ai-developers-could-learn-from-ernest...

I bet I could take him out.

Your comment starts as a nice teaser… care to share more? When was that?

Judging by his writing, I get a sense that he became a bit more socially pleasant towards the end of his life?

Oh, yes. And I think he was proud of that.

> the best writers have said very little and the worst, far too much. > bag over his head in a bathtub full of water. what Hitler couldn’t do, he did to himself. happy journey.

Throughout reading the "Betting on the muse", I had plenty of "what an asshole" moments.

This cracked me up. I only used ~~one~~ two of his poems and enjoyed most of the others. Betting on the Muse was $2.09 on Amazon, which is a good ROI, I think.

Yea, it's hard to disagree! … and I don't think it's plausible to completely move away from folders (thinking about all those GitHub repos I've cloned or `git init`ed).

Otoh, there are some abstractions that I would favor or at least like to explore for some (categories of) tasks.

Think of Miro or Prezi, for example… they combine a zoomable UI, allowing you to navigate through your content that's meaningfully grouped. If I compare that to Google Drive, which is a combination of files and folders, plus files shared with me by numerous people who all have their own preferences for naming conventions, etc., it feels disorganized by default and requires the mundane work of organizing, which could be abstracted by novel technologies that "understand" the meaning of files.

:D – This, 100%!

Hey! Thanks for taking the time to comment. I don't think it's that much of a magic with modern multimodal embedding models that are available out there.

As you mentioned: > /…/ The same with photos: you organize them once in the input stage or periodically, and then you can search for them easily later on. /…/

As a hobby photographer, I take lots of photos. For example, I know I've taken photos of my cats, tractors, bridges, forests, etc., but I never bother manually tagging them beyond basic editing (contrast, white balance, etc.).

A system should be able to recognize what's in these photos and allow me to search for them not only by their content but by vibe as well. And once I find a photo I like, I'd really like to see similar photos (this in particular is very helpful for photographers curating their exhibitions). This is possible to achieve these days.

Also, I fully understand your point of view on `find`, `fd`, `grep`, `cat`, etc., but in reality it's only us nerds who ever open a terminal.