I’ve been writing all my life. It was the only thing I could rely on to get me through elementary, high school, and especially college. Essays and papers were my forte. I write songs. I even had a job writing DJ news articles, reviews, and courses for years up until the pandemic hit in 2020.

Between then and now, a lot changed: I started working in a new industry with a new role (tech as a music programmer and budding data analyst). When COVID restrictions were lifted I was able to DJ more and work with bands in my studio.

So while both hemispheres of my brain were stimulated (or at least “used”), one thing lay dormant: my writing. I had opened a guitar blog at the start of the pandemic, but it was more focused on news and press releases that we would rewrite.

It was fine – but on a plane trip to Jakarta I realized I wanted something different. I wanted something that was written in my voice, talking about things that I was always thinking about but couldn’t really express.

I wanted something that was mine.

I’ve always thought of writing as meditation: It’s a way for me to structure my thoughts to get them on paper. But this has an added benefit too of discovery, because a lot of times I learn more about the things I’m interested in (eg music, AI, ethics of automation) when I write about them.

Why write when chatGPT / AI can do all the writing?

Writing lets me spar with myself, wrangling all my ideas and thoughts and forcing me to sit with them to see which ones are worth pursing and which ones should be discarded. chatGPT is great, but that’s a multitude of “someone else” writing, not me.

I aim to write here every day, nothing long. Just a single post talking about a single idea that I’m interested in, and hoping that I learn more about it as I write.

If you’re here and you find that the stuff here is for you too, welcome 🙂