Welcome to My Brain

I have seen the future.

I’ve just returned from a local meetup of builder enthusiasts, eager to use AI tools to build anything they can imagine. As a demonstration, a website was built, uploaded, and hosted in less than two hours.

Not a single key on the keyboard was typed.

By daisy chaining a few tools and plug-ins, the whole thing was constructed via voice commands. Superwhisper translated speech to text into Cursor with Claude-4-sonnet and I watched code build code.

You can build anything: Websites. Apps. Videos. Photos. Novels. Friends. No programming knowledge required.

Driven by endless GPUs and code, what I was witnessing is what Nietzsche called Wille zur Macht or “will to power.” Will it and it appears.

Technology has now reached a point of democratization where everything specialized is obsolete. The Boomers with RFID badges around their neck running IT departments nation-wide are now dinosaurs waiting to fossilize. Designers, models, Hollywood all shudder before this Great Awakening. The Everyman has the tools to surpass them for a fraction of a fraction of the cost. Overnight businesses are outmoded, undercut, and turned into relics.

If anyone can make anything, will there be specialization any more?

The way we learn will change. The way we work. The way we interact. Creating will supersede doing. It’s not a Great Awakening, it’s a Renaissance. Behold the works of art made from silicon and not paintbrush or ink.

This Big Bang 2.0 will continue to expand its universe like its predecessor. Backed by massive influxes of capital, evolution will come quick and fierce.

The next battle is going to be over ethics, trademark, and right of ownership of things willed into existence. But it might be awhile for that gets sorted out.

August 6, 2025

A quote I’ve been contemplating lately is “Trust and attention — these are the scarce items in a post-scarcity world.”

It’s true, isn’t it? Attention is the new currency. The most successful people these days are the ones who command the most eyeballs. We’ve quantified this with social media — followers and views are countable. Marketers love it because it makes choosing spokesman A over spokesman B easier if you just look at their social media.

Attention is also lagging. Our phones and apps make us live in a bite-sized (or byte-sized) world, consuming information three seconds at a time. We scroll through life oblivious to reality. As the fight for eyeballs and attention heats up, we’re drawn evermore in. Try sitting down and reading more than a few pages of a book without fidgeting. I still read constantly but it takes me a few extra days to finish a book now. I hate it.

The other half is trust. With chemicals in food, government digital surveillance, apps spying on you, internet cookies, and endless phishing scams to your phone and email, who can you trust? The cost of a post-scarcity world is your trust. The systems that bring food to your door or recommend clothes based on your style are the same ones collecting your personal information and sending it around the world.

I’ve had the idea for a while of doing a documentary on myself called Unplugged where I remove all means of internet access and screens from my life for 30 days. I’d be curious what happens to my brain and attention span…

August 6, 2025

This may be cart before the horse, but I could see this blog growing into something bigger. If I’ve learned anything after forty years on this planet, is that my brain never stops. Ideas come and go. It waxes philosophic. It gets me into trouble…

Marry this with my insatiable (compulsive?) lust for reading anything under the sun and you get a cocktail of endless thoughts about endless things. If I were to launch a podcast someday, I would have endless things to talk about.

But let’s make it really interesting: instead of me talking about X or interviewing random guests, I would have the guests interview me. It would be amazing to get to the point where I could have big names on or masters of their field and have them interview me.

Robert Rodriguez was on Joe Rogan a few weeks back and it was one of the best interviews I’d ever seen. RR was amazing, insightful, and really addressed how to do with struggling creatively. He must have done a round robin with podcasters because he showed up a few other places. But I noticed he said the exact same thing over and over — was it because he was asked the same questions? On top of that, I recently cracked open my much-loved copy of Tim Ferriss’s Tools of Titans and there was an interview with Robert from a decade ago…saying the same things.

So flip it on its head. Instead of a fourth, fifth, tenth interview where a celebrity says the same things to the same questions, imagine that celeb coming on the podcast and interviewing me. His or her world-view and experiences and passions would dictate the questions. Very interesting, right?

Hopefully I don’t give the same answers.

August 5, 2025

Welcome to My Brain

This blog has been born at 4:31am on a Saturday.  It serves two functions: 1) as a way to keep me writing every morning to clear out the normal jumble of thoughts that builds up when I wake up and b) maybe to encourage discourse.  Maybe I say something of note or interest to someone and it leads to a conversation with new ideas.  At the very least, it should allow other people to see that someone else thinks like they do!

I’ve also been motivated by a quote from Seth Godin: “Everyone should blog, even if it’s not under their own name, every single day.  If you are in the public making predictions and noticing things, your life gets better.  Because you will find a discipline that can’t help but benefit you.  If you want to do it in a diary, that’s fine.  But the problem with diaries is because they’re private, you can start hiding.  In public, in this blog, there it is.  Six weeks ago you said this; 12 weeks ago you said that.  Are you able, every day, to say one thing that’s new that you’re willing to stand behind?  I think that’s just a huge, wonderful practice.”

Game on Seth!

The title was born from a fantasy dialogue I was having in my head (which happens often) where I presented an idea and the other voice said “that’s really out there” and I responded “welcome to my brain.” Those words lit up my imagination and within seconds I was searching available domains. I knew I had a name for a blog! http://www.welcometomybrain.com was available for $6,000 and directly below it was http://www.welcometomybrain.me which was not only $9.99 but made me half-chuckle at the “.me” ending and I knew it was a slam dunk.

So here we are. Maybe others will find it interesting if not for the topics discussed but at least for the fact they know someone else has the same thoughts or problems or issues or neuroticism. I read a ton so there’s always lots of information floating in my brain. By the way, if you’d read this far the title is not me forgetting to change default lorem ipsum — Ego eimi is Greek for “I am, I exist.” I’m celebrating the existing of a new idea.

I’ll get around to stylizing this place eventually. For now, it’s just about getting the words out.

-C

August 4, 2025