#Writing Output/Newsletter
Random Walk Newsletter, Issue 33#
Observations & Insights#
It's been a while since the last update. Recently, I've noticed that many subscribed Newsletters have extended their update frequency. Once again, I've experienced how difficult it is to persist in doing something, especially maintaining a fixed frequency over a period of time. For example, when I was memorizing vocabulary, I started and gave up, started again and gave up again. I don't know how many cycles I went through before finally sticking with it.
I took a look and realized that I started writing Newsletters since the beginning of last year. I can give myself some affirmation for being able to persist until now, even though there were interruptions in between (each time I used the excuse of not writing just for the sake of writing to comfort myself). But after all, I haven't completely stopped updating.
Audiobooks & Books#
Delayed Gratification
I won't go into the concept of delayed gratification, but I want to share the aspects mentioned in the book that can affect delayed gratification.
- Emotions: If our emotions are not good, our self-control will decrease. Compared to people with a good mood, those who often experience negative emotions are more likely to choose fewer immediate rewards rather than more valuable and delayed rewards.
- Willpower: Willpower is an important but limited biological resource. It's like a muscle that can be exercised, but if you overuse it, the muscle will also fatigue. So our ability to delay gratification is also limited.
The Era of Intelligent Creation
Finally, the author shared a quote, "David Holtz, the founder of the famous AI image generation model Midjourney, evaluates artificial intelligence as follows: 'AI is water, not a tiger. Water is indeed dangerous, but you can learn to swim, build boats, build dams, and even generate electricity with it. Water is indeed dangerous, but it is the driving force of civilization. Humanity progresses because we know how to coexist with water and make good use of it. Water gives us more opportunities.'"
From the above, I thought of a saying, that technology itself is not wrong, it mainly depends on how humans use it.
That's all for this issue of the Newsletter. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me. Thank you for reading.