Plus answering questions, taking naps and thinking of a better future
Strong Morning
Yes, I raged productivity all morning. I was writing, making a little movie, and even cooked chickpea pasta with vegetable sauce. Real quick before I move on, just to illustrate how technology is helping me live better: I’m broke and there isn’t much “bread in the bread box,” so I took a picture of the tomatoes, onions, canned corn, and adobo that I got from the food bank a few weeks ago (because I don’t even have salt or pepper) and sent them to ChatGPT. It gave me a recipe for veggie sauce that was pretty good.
Afternoon Crash
Anyway, by noon my body and brain did what they do every afternoon and totally gave up on me. So I had to rest my eyes. I woke up, and two hours had passed, and my head was banging. I drank two cups of coffee and started researching more ways to grow this blog and the content that supplements it. I remembered a woman named Miriam whom I met on OkCupid but never in real life, and how she said I could use Quora.
Quora is a platform where people ask questions and get answers from a global community. It’s a place to share knowledge, learn new things, and connect with others who have similar interests.
If you want to check out Quora:
Hey Man, I Know Things
Now, I may not be the poster child of success in the American capitalist paradigm, but I definitely know some shit about some stuff from either experience or being obsessed via ADHD hyper-focus. Turns out I’m not bad at writing down this shit I know, either… So it seems like a good place to answer questions and strategically place links to this here volume of things I’ve written.
I swear to God I’m trying not to be too self-involved or take myself too seriously. I just found something that I’m good at (writing), and I’m trying to use it so that I don’t have to worry about how I’m going to eat and pay my bills. There are a lot of things I’m not good at that could pay my bills, but I’m trying not to do them. I think this is reasonable.
Progress, not Perfection
Speaking of bills: if you’re a returning reader, have you noticed how much better I’m doing since I worked out how to cover the basic need of housing, with help from the very forward-thinking NYC supportive housing program?
Oh yeah, and the stopping of rabid inhalant abuse.
So I got to thinking:
It got me thinking. What if we (as a society) started taking care of people’s basic needs and making sure they had access to the kind of technology that’s helping me do things like cooking? Can you imagine the creative and technological renaissance we’d have? How many brilliant people don’t do anything like the work they’re capable of because they’re spending all their time and energy trying to pay rent? How many things am I doing that I never thought I could do because of various kinds of “learning disabilities”? I doubt I’d be taking care of my mental health needs if I was still sleeping in that alley next to the bus station. I know I wouldn’t be writing every day, making little multimedia projects and I definitely wouldn’t be sautéing vegetables.
Don’t tell me that it’s not in the budget to house people. Look at how much money we spend on wars and prisons, bro. Just cut that shit out, and take care of folks. They aren’t going to lose their motivation to contribute to the human race; that’s some dumbass Reaganomics invention. The “welfare queen” who sits around all day, getting fat and having more babies on your tax dollars is complete right-wing propaganda, demonstrably false.
If AI is going to take everyone's job, it’s going to be time for universal basic income, otherwise everyone’s fucked.
Sorry, I got kind of carried away, with the socialist utopia trip.
anyway, about the lack of bread in the breadbox:
if you think i’m using this image for this post without laughter and tongue firmly in cheek, then you have no sense of humor and are taking me way more seriously than anyone should:
