I'm a generalist. I'm chaotic. Sometimes I lack a little discipline. I get extremely obsessive over things and then all of a sudden I decide I'm not all that into it.
I'll go on a meat-only diet for 3 weeks and refuse to budge, but then decide that was dumb and sauna + pickleball is all that I need. Then I'll decide that I want to go pro in pickleball. Then I'll get roped into building with AI and get caught in a "never-ending tinker" as Rose would put it.
This is where I am now. I'm in the middle of a never-ending tinker. There's a graveyard of never deployed side projects. Only part of the graveyard exists today, some haven't made it to the graveyard yet because maybe one day I'll return.
➜ stash git:(fields) ✗ ls -al ../../archived_development
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 22 tylerklose staff 704 Aug 14 2024 .
drwxr-x---+ 100 tylerklose staff 3200 Dec 31 13:15 ..
drwxr-xr-x@ 34 tylerklose staff 1088 Mar 29 2023 base-app
drwxr-xr-x 28 tylerklose staff 896 Dec 14 2023 beer-me-app
drwx------@ 26 tylerklose staff 832 Jan 31 2024 campfire
drwxr-xr-x 3 tylerklose staff 96 Jan 29 2024 jumpstart-pro-ios
drwxr-xr-x@ 38 tylerklose staff 1216 Jan 12 2024 kloses-kitchen
drwxr-xr-x 41 tylerklose staff 1312 Feb 10 2023 know-your-horse
drwxr-xr-x 35 tylerklose staff 1120 Dec 5 2022 know-your-wallet
drwxr-xr-x 13 tylerklose staff 416 May 14 2022 know-your-wallet-ethereum
drwxr-xr-x@ 35 tylerklose staff 1120 Sep 29 2023 music-city-wheels
drwxr-xr-x@ 13 tylerklose staff 416 Mar 29 2023 mysportsfeeds-ruby
drwxr-xr-x 56 tylerklose staff 1792 Jul 2 2024 pickle-kitchen
drwxr-xr-x 19 tylerklose staff 608 Jul 18 2024 pickle-kitchen-android
drwxr-xr-x 16 tylerklose staff 512 Feb 12 2024 pickle-kitchen-ios
drwxr-xr-x 34 tylerklose staff 1088 Feb 20 2024 pickleball-app
drwxr-xr-x 37 tylerklose staff 1184 May 7 2023 pickleball-tools
drwxr-xr-x 31 tylerklose staff 992 Feb 6 2023 rails-template
drwxr-xr-x@ 33 tylerklose staff 1056 Jan 28 2024 reignmakers-tools
drwxr-xr-x@ 36 tylerklose staff 1152 Oct 16 2023 sports-analytics
drwxr-xr-x 25 tylerklose staff 800 Feb 14 2024 turbo-8-morphing-demo
drwxr-xr-x 9 tylerklose staff 288 Dec 1 2022 vhslabI'm a sneakerhead. I'm a gamer. I'm an avid reader.... book buyer. I take ownership over my own finances. I keep meticulous records for every bit of maintenance done on my Mazda CX-30. I have a whiteboard desk that I no longer draw on. I have so many stacks of papers of notes that I've manically written / drawn while building Skillit, listening to customer feedback, getting lost in imagination, capturing the random idea from the shower, bills I need to make sure I've paid, insurance benefit documents that I'll never read, but are lingering on my desk for some reason.
I'd like to say there's one stack, but there's not. There's a full bookshelf. There's 5 stacks on my desk. There's another dresser that has receipts, documents, among other things. I still have all of my overly detailed notes from my environmental economics class at UNC and near that are the proofs I worked through in discrete math with Dr. Xavier Mela — a very memorable teacher.
Not everything sticks in my brain, but I dive head first into just about everything pretending that it will all stick. I try to be the best and most thorough in every venture I embark on. There's inevitably something more fun to work on, so I chase that.
The problem is I can't be boxed in. There's no structure that I can adhere to. Every piece of software I've used so far makes assumptions about workflows, processes, ways of thinking, but I'm contrarian, I'm different, I'm not always right — even though maybe I wish I could be?
But the problem still exists — my mind is now scattered all over my physical environment and across multiple AI assistants. The mess is just getting worse. I don't think in chats. I don't think in folders. I don't think — I impulsively act. I'm a mess.
There is no silver bullet. There is no structure that is a one-size-fits-all. I can guarantee that your mental model of the world isn't the same as mine. Shit, my mental model of the world four years ago is very different from where it is today, and within a few months, I'll be battling something new.
I need something that can mirror me. I don't need a nagging assistant that tries to help me at every possible moment. I need something that hears me, just listens, and holds onto my crazy ideas, wild theories, stupid thoughts. I need something that lets me forget them. I need something that can pull a thread I've stashed while riding my penny board from Sitterson down to my dorm room at HOJO because I'm somehow circling the same idea again.
Notion can't do it. Apple Notes can't do it. I'm not even sure I can do it. But hey, fuck it, let's play with new tech, tinker around, and see what comes next. Best case scenario, I turn into a superhuman version of myself. Worst case scenario, I pushed LLM technology as far as I could and hit a dead end.
In the meantime, I'll need somewhere to put all those learnings.