The circular moment of the three stories

Three small stories:

#1
Some time ago, I heard this phrase: “Ideas are cheap.” I was offended. I heard myself in the head saying: “How dare you demean the entire human existence, which is basically built and improved on new ideas.”

After some self-regulated anger management time had passed, I realized it’s true. What it really meant is that people can just “think up” ideas, but just as easily choose not to do anything about them.

#2
About 20 years ago (dating myself here), when I first was learning how to build a website, I deliberately gave up on learning how to code, mostly because I am dyslexic and coding is just hard for me. But I also told myself that “in 5 years, all of this will be automated.” Boy, was I wrong. Along the way, I missed out on quite a few opportunities because my JavaScript skills were just miserable.

I instead moved on to other areas that are a lot less technical, but also wildly, differently interesting. It’s like a set of never-ending detours.

#3
When GenAI first came out, I discovered a new hobby. I realized I don’t chase materialistic pleasures as much as I used to. I found myself spending more time talking to GenAI about new knowledge, frontier capabilities, future predictions, and making multiple failed attempts to ask them to reconcile relativity and quantum theory, pretending I knew what they were all about.

Still, through all of that, I could suddenly truly feel the energy in me wanting to continue to dig and learn more.

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Here is the full-circle moment: throughout the years, I had documented my cheap ideas, hoping one day I could motivate myself enough to try them out. And now, with GenAI, I have been relentlessly bringing to life my old dreams that were once seemingly fading away. I built several sites and projects that I had in my mind and learned how to use a whole new set of tools.

Is it too late? Who knows. But the truth is, I am having fun, so much fun, with GenAIs. And those detours I took along the way? They equipped me with so many different perspectives that I now have various interesting projects popping into my mind that I can’t wait to try.

All of this is to say that I put all my new projects on https://www.itskai.com/ - they are all experimental, but I am actively looking for feedback, advice, and potential interest in collaborating on them.

Take a look! One of the most fun projects I have done just now is what I call the Coto Empanada Index, where I am tracking Argentina’s economic state and inflation progression by using USD against ARS exchange rate + the empanada price at their largest supermarket chain.

I hope you find as much joy as I do in the new era of GenAIs. The future is indeed uncertain, but riding the wave isn’t so bad either.

Kai