With apologies to Robb Knight, from whomst I stole the format. General Continuing and, indeed, accelerating the trend of the previous year, 2025 was marked by a significant amount of travel. Short trips, long trips. At times it felt like I was gone more than I was home, although the statistics don’t bear that out. My blog is read almost exclusively by the friends who I directly link to it (thank you!
Some of the concepts and terminology I’m about to use, as well as the title of the blog post, were lifted directly from here. Having said that, I think I’m going to end up at a very different final destination than the original poster. So, credit where credit is due, but don’t feel compelled to read the original to understand my point. King Power King Power is money. I think the original article would try to lump in other things, like status, but one of my foundational operational primitives is that all of those things are fungible with money.
Have you ever lost something and then spent the next ten years trying to find it? I have. It’s an essay about the fall of the Roman Empire. Did the average citizen know the empire had fallen? No. It took them about 200 years to figure out, but you’re just going to have to trust me because all the kings horses and all the king’s men haven’t been able to find that paper again.
I wanted to try something new this week and give an end-of-week status report. No idea if this is something I’ll keep doing, but the best way to figure out if it’s useful (to me or anyone else) is to give it a try. The majority of this week has been spent working on the website for WizardHQ, a project that all my friends know about, but if you don’t know me personally this is the first time you’re hearing about it.
My thoughts on working with AI have evolved a lot over the last year or so that I’ve been actively using them. I’ve gone from “this is an interesting toy, but it doesn’t seem very useful” to “wow, people are using this all the time and it gets important things wrong” to “actually if you’re smart about how you use it this can do some really useful things” to “I’m using this more and more every day, it seems unlikely that’s going to change.
I’ve added a 100% Human Generated policy to my blog. […] AI is here. It’s going to “win” for many definitions of win, and some definitions of lose. But that doesn’t mean we need to abandon our crafts to it. The Luddites “lost” for most definitions of lose, but people still make things at home that could come from factories. […] _February 2025 Update: I’ve replaced my 100% Human Generated policy with a Collaborative AI policy, available here: thewizardly.
I have a new blog theme! It’s entirely possible you’re witnessing it right now, with your very own eye-holes. If not, you might want to click through and give it a taste.
I wish there were a way on micro.blog to write different kinds of posts. I forget the terminology but I’ve used hugo in the past to have a few distinct category of records. I want to do something like that for EG media reviews.
個人サイト管理人に50の質問 50 Questions for Personal Site Administrators Shamelessly borrowed from bikobatanari.art/posts/202… who also provides context on where this trend originated. Please tell us your name and its origin. A couple of years ago I was trying to come up with a username. The kind someone else might have created in high school and stuck with for the next 20 years. I was looking for something that could represent me, wasn’t already taken everywhere, and wasn’t directly associated with my day job or anything I’ve done previously on the internet.
I notice that when someone makes a post that micro.blog shortens to a title + link, if that title isn’t descriptive of the content, there’s 0% chance I’ll click through to see what it’s about. Need to consider that in my own posts.
Updated my version of a “now” page to add podcasts, since they’re the majority of my engagement with both news and media. thewizardly.com/now/
I suppose it’s only fitting to announce the existence of my new blog on my blog, and by extension the places it’ll automatically cross-post. I’m here! The main place to find me is thewizardly.com. IndieWeb technology fully supported. Webmentions? We gottem. POSSE to BlueSky? We got that too. My goal is to make it as easy as possible to fill your eyeholes with dripping hot words. Just slather them on. Wherever it is that you happen to pay attention to things, I want to be there, staring blankly into your soul.