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Monday, September 29, 2025

writing is thinking; convenience is taking away your freedom; and boring is important



(style: personal perspectives and reflections)

Nowadays, people are promoting AI use for everything and every area. Initially, such concepts were appealing or at least fresh for me. Gradually, I increase usages of grammarly and then other AI writing tools (e.g. Bing's embedded earlier version co-pilot), to the point of probably over-reliant on chatGPT to write. To this point, I'm almost in fear that my writing and critical thinking will be eroded away by these AI tools. Let me put my perspectives into two sides: 1. AI for easing boring works, e.g. making timeline table and looking for abbreviations, I'm all for these; 2. AI to replace my own thinking process, here I'm not referring to humanity's AI crisis etc which is way above my head, I'm against it as if that's cyber laziness not use your muscle, and here importantly is your creative and logical "muscles".

With such concerns, I decide to write a series of personal journals, some in my own perspectives and some in technical or grantsmanship tones (more to come), in order to capture my own styles and probably most importantly keep practicing my own writing muscles in a flowed fashion. Regardless what (AI or outside cyber worlds), I still enjoy writing as a way to express my internal self and clarify what exactly I've been thinking through. 

Similarly, iphone is a trap and the so-called digital convenience in the end becoming energy suckers to human/my limited attentions in daily to evening hours, eventually resulting loss of freedom, which is when one wanders in trail with tall grasses around, watches geese flapping wings from a small pond, tells different subtle yet beautiful flowers, and drifts his mind from one daily subject to another remote memory. Such sweetness is irreplaceable by digital porn.