As of February 2025, here’s how I use AI.
- I’ve used and will continue to use AI to create images, such as the one in the logo, created with Midjourney.
- I’ve used and will continue to use AI to spellcheck, i.e: Grammarly.
- I’ve used and will continue to use AI to assist my programming, i.e: Github Copilot in VSCode.
- I will use AI to clear my thoughts, learn about or research topics I am interested on, i.e: PI, Chatgpt, Claude, Gemini…
I share Hume’s belief that our ideas and concepts arise from the synthesis of items from our previous experiences:
But though our thought seems to possess this unbounded liberty, we shall find, upon a nearer examination, that it is really confined within very narrow limits, and that all this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded to us by the senses and experience. When we think of a golden mountain, we only conjoin two consistent ideas, gold, and mountain, with which we were formerly acquainted. A virtuous horse we can conceive; because, from our own feeling, we ca conceive virtue; and this we may unite to the figure and shape of a horse, which is an animal familiar to us. … The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise, and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and augmenting, without limit, those qualities of goodness ad wisdom. We may prosecute this enquiry to what length we please; where we shall always find, that every idea which we examine is copied from a similar impression. (David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section II: Of the Origin of Ideas)
Artists are inspired by other artists and so they learn or find their way. Writers find their style reading from others…
AI · 20260701 · Reply by email
I recently came across the COD system, it seems fishy but stands for Collect, Organise and Do.
Collect: pull together everything into an inbox.
Organise:
- Is it a task? → to the task manager.
- Is it an event? → to the calendar.
- Is it a note or something to reference later? → archive into the filesystem.
Do: Just do it. Do the task, forget about the event until relevant or needs preparing, and forget the note until you need it.
betterment · 20260624 · Reply by email
This is Pancho, he is our Spanish Water Dog. He’s very lovable with those he like, not so much with anyone else.
personal · 20260621 · Reply by email
I never thought about it, but there are more than 8 million species share our planet and we (humans) only understand the language of one.
It seems to me that with AI tools and pattern recognition this should be solved and it would enable us to talk to other animals. Of course the frame of reference would still be unbreachable (an ant doesn’t understand taxes, nor do I understand the day to day of an ant…), but at least we would have some common ground.
Check out the Earth Species Project →
misc. · 20260618 · Reply by email
I recently finished reading “Do Less yet Achieve More” by Nicholas Bate.
Worth reading to fully understand and absorb the Pareto principle.
Pros: The personal anecdote at the beginning really opened my eyes to many things.
Cons: This book could have been a blog post.
‘Life is for living, not always following an optimised plan.
reviews · 20260520 · Reply by email
It seems that, thanks to AI, the future of work has three paths to follow:
- If you are already a senior person in your company, you will probably shift from managing people to managing AI agents.
- Alternatively, you might become someone creative or handy, working with physical materials for a living—such as an artist, plumber, electrician, or baker.
- The third path is becomeing an entrepreneur.
Whichever path you choose, adaptability appears to be the key skill. Consider Darwin’s Survival of the Fittest, where the fittest are those who best adapt to their immediate environment.
In this new environment, there is no time to waste being a junior or intern, nor to dwell on coding skills lost to AI.
AI · 20260424 · Reply by email
Yesterday I finished reading “Old school” by Nicholas Bate. A short, sharp case for going back to basics. No clever systems, no shortcuts — just a reminder that focus, discipline, and doing the work properly still matter. It reads fast. Worth it.
‘Old school’ means living by timeless principles. Who doesn’t value punctuality or resourcefulness under pressure? These qualities are never obsolete; they form the foundation for working and living with ease.
reviews · 20260421 · Reply by email
Madrid, Spain
Working on: at TYA, building out my PKB in Obsidian
Learning: about AI, LLMs, parenting
Thinking about: How To Beat ChatGPT, what success means
Not doing right now: Trying not to follow the news…
Reading: Old School, How will you measure your life…
now · 20260421 · Reply by email