2023 was a blur, to be honest.
Days bled into weeks into months. While there were standout moments for sure, there was so much more that flowed right past without acknowledgement or reflection. While it may seem cliche to start writing on New Year's Day, today is the first day in several weeks where my mind was not preoccupied with other matters, so here we are, typing away.
Looking back, it isn't that I am not learning or seeking out new information. I feel what I personally need to work on is the intentionality. You get to a vastly different place if you are learning with the intent to output, as opposed to passively reading or listening to new information. My mind goes back to a college professor I had who always advised to focus on output; the input would come. So here I sit on the first day of 2024, resolving to write.
Having been in the crypto/NFT space since 2021, I am impressed and in awe of the many artists and creators that build something new everyday. The amount of energy needed to conceive, create, and share what you made is astounding. I have drawn, written, and prompted what I felt or thought about sporadically, but very little of that have I ever really put into a concrete output.
So I thought, why not give building a shot?
Disclaimer: I am not a very creative or technical person. But I have found solace in being able to prompt into existence scenes that I could see in my head, and for no other reason than because I thought they should exist. With the help of ChatGPT, I was able to create a python script to extract data via API, significantly reducing time spent in preparing my tax records. For many these may be trivial things, but not for me.
Therefore, in 2024 I resolve to experiment with things as I have done so before, but I also resolve to write about them. I resolve to record whatever learnings that come out of it, so that even if there are no readers but myself, I can look back and see something being composed, brick by brick.
I have no idea what will come of this, let's see. Wish me luck!
