Cats, good books, AI, and religious walking in the city of Sofia
I take breaks.
My long-term fitness goal is to do 10K steps per day on average over the course of a full year. It forces me to go out and not be attached to a screen. Do 20K steps on a good weekend day and I get a bonus – the strong desire to have a nap.
I read paper books. This way I disconnect and relax more than I would if I read e-books and am exposed to pings and distractions.
I don’t know if these methods are effective. Ask me in 10 or 20 years.
The fall is coming. The flowers are being replaced by falling fruit. It’s less blog-worthy. The previous generations didn’t imagine a situation in which fruits will rot on the ground.
Within the family, I believe that arguments should be resolved before going to bed.
Regarding non-family, it’s more complicated. Holding a grudge means punishing yourself for mistakes others did and unfairness outside of your control. But then, how else do we respond to the negative feelings? Not sure.
Overall, it’s a dead end. Not good for anyone. Do not recommend.
By distance, it has to be Kauai. It was a company meetup, one of the most epic I’ve attended. 12.9K km, 24+ hours of travel one-way. Our lead wanted to organize the best meetup ever and did one that’s very difficult to beat. It remained a good lifetime memory.
Imagine you have a group of 20 to gather together for a week from all over the world. Where would you go? Turns out that if you optimize for travel time, travel cost, opportunity cost, hotel, food, and convenience, you’ll get a very small list of cities next to the biggest airports on the planet. The group of 20 is likely skewed one way or another. Have more Americans? The top 10 choices will be continental USA or Canada, you end up visiting Montreal or Portland every year. Have more people from the EU? Lisbon, Barcelona, Amsterdam. You’ve got to have some Australians in the group to make Kauai even remotely possible 🙂
However, if we don’t count physical distance but the time and effort it takes to come back home, it has to be the military service.
The AI ad generator outperformed me in Blaze.
Blaze is WordPress.com’s internal ad system (Tools > Advertising). I decided to give it a try and ran 2 campaigns. The first was for a random Book post with an AI generated ad, and the second was for one of my best long reads with a hand-crafted ad copy.
The AI-generated one had a $0.3 CPC compared to $0.56 for my post. I also got fewer impressions.
The CPC that I achieved was okay but my blog is not a business, and doesn’t deserve it yet.
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