Yay for dictation! It's so nice to just think aloud and then have an easily editable record of your thoughts, even when you aren't feeding the outputs to LLMs.
Heh. Sometimes when I'm stuck at work and feeling unmotivated/catch myself procrastinating, I'll write out my thoughts in my OneNote notebook that I take all work notes in. I do kinda cringe about the idea of IT reading those notes sometimes, but oh well, and it's helped a lot.
This is connecting to another commenter's idea that AI can be sort of a stand-in for journaling.
> I almost feel like she writes to share things with people she loves, even though she doesn't know them directly.
Thank you for articulating this!
I'm not Julia, but I'd just like to put down here that this is pretty much my philosophy for public speaking/giving presentations, and I have been trying to instill it in some coworkers who struggle with presentations. It's a great privilege to be able to convey to one's peers and loved ones things that you're (likely) a bit more familiar with than they are and which may help them with some matter.
From what I've heard through self-publishing media, nowadays, traditional publishing isn't even particularly disposed towards pushing back on things like these. They might even be all for publishing works based on outright lies if there's an existing customer base with open wallets.
Supposedly traditional publishing has become more and more conservative (not necessarily politically) with the risks they take on things they publish, so they'd be less likely to push back against widely-held ideas that are outright wrong. They'll really only publish authors with an established following or works that have a large base of interested consumers.
Edit: I just wanted to add that since I've heard these things so much, going to a bookstore like Barnes & Noble feels super weird. The books look nice, but they're all expensive and I have no sense that the selection has been curated for genuine quality or informational content. It's just what happens to being published now.
I greatly prefer the experience of going to thrift stores like Goodwill where the selection is chaotic, there's no real expectation of curation aside from maybe broad categories, and the books are gloriously cheap. You can find great stuff there!
> I've been living in Finland for 10+ years, and this whole story was super surprising for me to learn because the prevailing notion among people here is that Finland is the land of law, and everything is done correctly and legally, always, and we can and should trust the authorities.
I'd pretty much grown up believing that that's how the US worked post-slavery (aside from occasional deviances from the rule). Since the start of the pandemic, I've had quite the awakening.
I wasn't aware that there are people who want it to crash. I've just been getting the feeling that no one understands why it isn't crashing or hasn't crashed yet amidst a bunch of really destabilizing policies.
I haven't been able to try out the OP's link yet (I'm also on mobile right now), but for your current usage of splitting formulas across lines, I've used this tool a bunch to do that for me: https://www.excelformulabeautifier.com
Neat! I think I've done a similar thing in Jujutsu VCS, which enables you to start a new commit and add a message (description) to it well before you make any actual changes. As you described, it's a really useful way of keeping on track.