lapis sky

first morning in at least a month that's cloudy and cool, what a relief. I love august when it's been brutally hot and you feel that first shift

interesting experience when I left a bad relationship immediately after I lost my voice and it lasted like 2 weeks where I could barely talk and today after a dramatic last few days with my in laws that resulted in them leaving early, my voice is also scratchy. why at pivotal feeling times after I say important things do I get laryngitis.. need to talk to my friend with somatic training about this.

unbelievable to think that in a few weeks my daughter is going to start a couple mornings a week at preschool and I'm buying her a small backpack.. also we are in full summer mode where she naps through the hottest parts of the day and goes to bed later so she can play outside during the cooler evenings so she's waking up later too and now I feel like I have a ticking clock to turn her schedule around.. I hate rushing in general and I especially hate rushing her but right now she is waking up 20 minutes before we'd have to leave which is.. not enough time..

something I'm noticing with ai in the workplace is that we've lost the first draft.. like, its ability to make something that looks and sounds polished has created this dynamic where people show you something and are implicitly looking for approval of it because it appears "done". but then you look at it and are like what would this actually mean or look like in practice and it doesn't have those elements built out so you try to get back to the basics and propose revisions that are more in line with the start of the process and actually developing an idea, but the ai-produced deck jumped that step or smoothed over it in a way that asking to participate in construction or suggesting substantial revisions now feels like raining on someone's parade. but it's like.. we need the first draft.. if ai can nominally help with aesthetics and feeding brand guidelines so someone doesn't have to make a deck about it okay, not how I do things, but I can see why someone might see an appeal there. but lately this kind of thing keeps happening and I'm like cool, it's polished.. but not practical or thought through so we have to do it again.. you would think maybe someone wouldn't take it that personally because how much work did they actually put in, but I am seeing people take it very personally and it's just kind of awkward all around..