To Convey You

Thursday, April 04, 2025

Good morning, that wonderful way.

O/ Hello. \O

Woke up laughing.

I do hope you’ve had at least one dream that’s worth waking in laughter to.

“What was it about, Ghos+?”
- Respectable Reader

“Bathroom humor. I’ll keep it to myself.”
- Respectful Ghos+

Hope all’s well with you.

On with our show.

Well timed The Sun starts to show, starts the show.

Sunrise is a day’s introduction music.

It’s a prelude, dude.

Went through some old entries on the site yesterday, fixed a few typos, updated some tags, and changed the header font.

Typos do happen, even with my flexible poet-ish grammar.

The posts are a one-shot thing:

Archaic slab ->Type up -> Disagree with the AI Editor’s suggestions -> Pictures -> Final Edit -> Tag -> Post.

All before/during breakfast.

AI for writing is best kept for after the first draft.

I keep the spell-check, grammar-check, and suggestions off.

They don’t help while drafting.

AI helps us frame a sentence, not write one.

Tell a poet how to shape a sentence and you might as well spit in our face.

To leave the checks and suggestions on as you write gets in the way of the rhythm of the piece. You focus on the correct way to say a thing and not the right way to say it.

Editing is always best done after the writing. They are a separate process.

To leave the checks and suggestions on while you write is to have a nagging teacher watch over your shoulder throwing angry wavy Christmas lights to point out your faults as you go.

Not a helpful happening for your best writing to come out.

Send the nag to the corner, say what you have to say not what others have said, then flip the Christmas lights on.

If they help make your point clearer, if they don’t disrupt the flow of the sentence, thank them and move on.

AI is the help, not the endpoint.

A reader is the destination; a reader is a person.

Suit your readers ear and curiosity best, make reading your work a comfortable enjoyable thing for human ear, not an algorithm... an imagination.

The idea is to get you on the page on the screen, and not who you’re supposed to be.

To convey you, not to convey expectations, to exceed them with your honest originality.

Some writing is dull, but that’s just genre.

You’re as much a part of a piece of technical writing as you are a poem.

Your one rule: Be clear; be clearly you.

Expression and not obedience is the aim of every sentence.

Always.

This rule holds true for AI prompts as well.

Every button pressed to send AI a prompt is labeled:

What you get back is always the reflection of how much human memory that particular application accesses, and has access to, in their server.

The best algorithms return from a limited catalog of record of humanity’s yesterdays.

The more we add to the internet the more AI’s reflection can tell us about our experience.

A good friend’s advice, one that’s known you for a long time, is always preferable to that of a strangers.

They’re more familiar with your experience of life and so help in a way with your best needs in mind.

A good friend is: A server of information about the world customized to serve you best.

Take care, add some flair, be fair, rhyme because it’s a fun way to say what you got to say, and make a wonderful day.