You Shall Not Edit
For the first time in my life I can say I've been slacking at something because I've been working hard on other, more important things.
The something I'm slacking at is this blog, something you might've garnered by this point since half of my posts are meta-posts about writing and not writing.
I'd love to go into more detail about those other "more important" things but in the interest of keeping you interested, I'm going to stay in stealth for now.
But to give you just a taste, I've been:
- Making difficult yet fulfilling career choices & Pursuing exciting business opportunities
- Rejuvenating a wilting social life
- Noticing turns of phrase on the verge of not being funny anymore...
- And another secret fourth thing
But that doesn't mean I haven't been writing!
I've done quite a bit of writing both for this blog and for those other things you might learn about if you stick around and tell your friends to feed their email to thismightnotmatter.
However the thing about my writing is it mostly sucks right off the rip. At least by my blogging standards. I run through each post (and email, long-text, etc.) many, many times to get the sound of it just right in my head.
For some posts, such as the short, jokey OpenAI will Implode on November 24th 2026 post (which is aging like fine wine so far) this isn't much of a problem. A few passes through took under an hour.
But for posts I "care" more about, that process can take days or weeks. This is why I haven't posted anything these past few months. I'll have a bright sparking idea, go through my initial manic phase of one-step-below stream of consciousness output, then begin the task of uncovering the actual blog post beneath the slime.
If my goal in life was to be a professional blogger I'd buck up and just do it – but as we were just discussing – I got bigger dreams (bigger dreams).
Why am I telling you all this?
Because, for those that are interested, I'm posting some rough drafts of posts I've worked on the past couple months but haven't had time to complete. I can't guarantee any of these will be completed (I'll tag them [Public Draft] until completion) but if you can stomach my almost entirely unedited writing and like a draft, feel free to leave a comment or send an email begging me to make time to finish it.
The posts are linked below. I'm not sending them to your inbox so none of you beautiful people get spammed and since I don't expect all of you to want to read a draft of anything. (If you're using an RSS reader I apologize)
P.S. Thank you for those of you that reached out after finding me through my HK post wanting me to continue Dear Future. It is (one of) my life mission(s) to complete that project but it's still daunting. I will continue as soon as possible, please stick around!
DRAFT POST LINKS
2025 and tech
Written in December of 2025, this was going to be a "my year in tech" kind of overview. Small update: my current model usage is roughly 96% Claude, 2% Gemini, 2% ChatGPT/Other.
Oscar Garcia
Do You 6C 6F 76 65 me?
I was honestly pretty okay with letting my 2025 and tech post stay in the waste-bin but this post I'm still frustrated with myself for not completing. There's the whisper of something pretty cool here but structurally, I got overwhelmed. Of everything I post today this is the one I'm most likely to come back to.
Oscar Garcia
A Slightly More Intuitive Understanding of Why LLM's Aren't Intelligent or Conscious but Are Still Pretty Useful
This whole post was supposed to be in service of my analogy for understanding why LLM's can sometimes feel conscious at times despite (probably) not being so.
Oscar Garcia
Temporal Vertigo
Pretty rough existential crash-out with some interesting snippets. As rough as this is there are a few parts where I'm quite pleased with my prose.
Oscar Garcia
Software Switching Sickness
Started working on a "all the software I use" type post. Some great recommendations in here if you've only used system defaults before but if trying new stuff isn't your thing, you can skip this one. (I only got through most of the Mac portion btw, no iPhone)
Oscar Garcia
untitled plane crash post
I took an edible the other night and wanted to write something. Why did I choose to write about this? Honestly because I looked through my boundless random ideas lists and this is the first thing that seemed easy to write about.
Oscar Garcia
Let me know what you think of these under-developed ramblings if you braved their contents. There are many more under-developed ramblings to come and maybe even a few polished posts here and there! So you might want to subscribe for that:
