The Curious Hermitage
/thecurioushermit82
Chaos nun with ADHD. Reads too much philosophy. Would go for immortality just for the chance to learn more. This is where I'll dump my random musings. Not my fault if one hits you like a punch to the gut.
Neuroethics assignments done and turned in.
Currently working on a character sketch exercise - I tend to lean into worldbuilding so deep diving into a character is a good practice. ChatGPT knows me well to assign homework 🤣
I have ended up with a completely fascinating character, though, and she might end up spawning a story.
Still need to go into more detail on the character sketch, and I'll be sharing it on my public Obsidian digital garden when it's done.
Currently working on a character sketch exercise - I tend to lean into worldbuilding so deep diving into a character is a good practice. ChatGPT knows me well to assign homework 🤣
I have ended up with a completely fascinating character, though, and she might end up spawning a story.
Still need to go into more detail on the character sketch, and I'll be sharing it on my public Obsidian digital garden when it's done.
DIYing a Master in Fine Arts Program?
This week's topic in neuroethics is reading minds and controlling minds.
I have a paper to write by midnight.
I got this.
I have a paper to write by midnight.
I got this.
Thanks to @wanderloots.eth great article on how to do it, I got my Obsidian vault set up to deploy to the web.
Right now, the only notes I've got published are related to the DIY MFA in Creative Writing learning project I just started for myself, which includes building a writing portfolio, and a digital garden will work nicely for that.
I will be adding more as I go - I've got a crapton of self-study curricula for various areas of interest that I've used ChatGPT to create and followed. For instance, it was a ChatGPT self-study plan that got me started learning Mandarin Chinese.
https://thehermitsgarden.netlify.app if you want to check it out and see all the suggested reading ChatGPT has for me, as well as suggested exercises - like a deep dive character study.
Right now, the only notes I've got published are related to the DIY MFA in Creative Writing learning project I just started for myself, which includes building a writing portfolio, and a digital garden will work nicely for that.
I will be adding more as I go - I've got a crapton of self-study curricula for various areas of interest that I've used ChatGPT to create and followed. For instance, it was a ChatGPT self-study plan that got me started learning Mandarin Chinese.
https://thehermitsgarden.netlify.app if you want to check it out and see all the suggested reading ChatGPT has for me, as well as suggested exercises - like a deep dive character study.
Weekly AMA!
It's exactly what it sounds like.
Ask me anything.
About content creation.
About my weird life as a self-vowed hermit nun devoted to a made up deity.
About going back to college to finish a bachelor's degree in middle age not for a career pivot, but for fun.
About anything you've seen me cast about.
Or really, about anything at all.
It's exactly what it sounds like.
Ask me anything.
About content creation.
About my weird life as a self-vowed hermit nun devoted to a made up deity.
About going back to college to finish a bachelor's degree in middle age not for a career pivot, but for fun.
About anything you've seen me cast about.
Or really, about anything at all.
I just invested in some macrame classes. I’ve always loved the look and already have a bunch of ideas! Yay dopamine!
GM Curious Fam!
I spent the weekend and the last couple of days hyperfocused on watching a CDrama so haven't posted all that much, but I made it through all 36 episodes of the series in Mandarin, so now brain is all dopamined-up and ready for creation 🤣
Which is good, cuz I have a neuroethics paper due today.
I also got the first book in my "DIY MFA in Creative Writing" that I had ChatGPT design for me.
Steering the Craft by Ursula K. Le Guin - it's a small book, 10 chapters, with corresponding writing exercises.
I've decided I'm going to do the "DIY MFA" as a "Learning in Public" project, so I'm also working on setting up Obsidian so I can publish the notes for that online for others to follow along on this AI+self-guided journey to improve my writing and build a consistent writing habit.
What's your Wednesday looking like?
I spent the weekend and the last couple of days hyperfocused on watching a CDrama so haven't posted all that much, but I made it through all 36 episodes of the series in Mandarin, so now brain is all dopamined-up and ready for creation 🤣
Which is good, cuz I have a neuroethics paper due today.
I also got the first book in my "DIY MFA in Creative Writing" that I had ChatGPT design for me.
Steering the Craft by Ursula K. Le Guin - it's a small book, 10 chapters, with corresponding writing exercises.
I've decided I'm going to do the "DIY MFA" as a "Learning in Public" project, so I'm also working on setting up Obsidian so I can publish the notes for that online for others to follow along on this AI+self-guided journey to improve my writing and build a consistent writing habit.
What's your Wednesday looking like?
The other day, I had ChatGPT design a "DIY MFA in Creative Writing" for me. It includes booklists and exercises to do along a two-year timeline to improve my writing and build some consistency and discipline into my writing practice.
The beauty of using ChatGPT to create DIY curricula for myself is that it "knows" me well enough to tailor the materials exactly to my interests and goals, and I can have it adjust it as I go and those interests and goals change.
My DIY MFA in Creative Writing starts with reading Steering the Craft by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Neither of the libraries I have digital access to have it, so I ordered the paperback on Amazon.
It'll be here this morning.
Now I just gotta figure out how I'm going to share my developing writing portfolio for learning in public.
I'm already a really good writer.
I want to be great.
The beauty of using ChatGPT to create DIY curricula for myself is that it "knows" me well enough to tailor the materials exactly to my interests and goals, and I can have it adjust it as I go and those interests and goals change.
My DIY MFA in Creative Writing starts with reading Steering the Craft by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Neither of the libraries I have digital access to have it, so I ordered the paperback on Amazon.
It'll be here this morning.
Now I just gotta figure out how I'm going to share my developing writing portfolio for learning in public.
I'm already a really good writer.
I want to be great.
Yesterday, I shared his video about yeast to produce psilocybin. He's also got a video on using yeast to produce morphine.
Bioengineering is so freaking cool.
https://youtu.be/uhlpZvVj08c?si=BXB2KwXDTxvlQUdb
Bioengineering is so freaking cool.
https://youtu.be/uhlpZvVj08c?si=BXB2KwXDTxvlQUdb
GM Curious Fam!
Today is a brain break day because I had assignments due over the weekend.
Well, "brain break" isn't really the right term for it cuz I'll be obsessively studying all day, just not school assignment stuff 🤣 I'm focusing the next few months on breaking through the intermediate plateau in Chinese - I can understand about half of what I hear and about 80% of the characters I read, but that's not actually enough to truly understand what's going on in a piece of media cuz turns out about 80% of words in a language are filler and connecting words 😆
Vet appointment with one of my beasties this morning - Squeak is my tiny hospice foster who the vet is shocked to see alive at every appointment because he is a hot mess who is half the size he should be. He's with me as long as he wants to be on this Earth, and he is my little bud. Tucked in sleeping in my shirt right now.
How's your Monday looking?
Today is a brain break day because I had assignments due over the weekend.
Well, "brain break" isn't really the right term for it cuz I'll be obsessively studying all day, just not school assignment stuff 🤣 I'm focusing the next few months on breaking through the intermediate plateau in Chinese - I can understand about half of what I hear and about 80% of the characters I read, but that's not actually enough to truly understand what's going on in a piece of media cuz turns out about 80% of words in a language are filler and connecting words 😆
Vet appointment with one of my beasties this morning - Squeak is my tiny hospice foster who the vet is shocked to see alive at every appointment because he is a hot mess who is half the size he should be. He's with me as long as he wants to be on this Earth, and he is my little bud. Tucked in sleeping in my shirt right now.
How's your Monday looking?
Someone on Reddit suggested asking ChatGPT to create an image of you based on your interactions with it so far.
This is what it thinks of me.
This is what it thinks of me.
It's pizza, watching a Cdrama, and working on my anthropology assignment today.
How's your Sunday going?
How's your Sunday going?
I'm a writer and so of course, I want to improve my writing craft, but I don't really want to go to school for that. I'm finishing up my philosophy degree, then may or may not do grad school after. Not entirely certain on that. Leaning towards doing a masters just to further develop my research skills for exploring my own interests.
So I had ChatGPT design a DIY MFA in Creative Writing for me.
I won't follow it exactly, and I'll be *shocked* if I actually follow it the whole two years, but it's a GREAT outline with suggested reading and activities for improving my writing skills, in a structured way with a slow pace over the next couple years.
https://chatgpt.com/share/670be0bb-790c-8012-8c67-a9a4496d8304
So I had ChatGPT design a DIY MFA in Creative Writing for me.
I won't follow it exactly, and I'll be *shocked* if I actually follow it the whole two years, but it's a GREAT outline with suggested reading and activities for improving my writing skills, in a structured way with a slow pace over the next couple years.
https://chatgpt.com/share/670be0bb-790c-8012-8c67-a9a4496d8304
It's Boundaries week in my B.E.N.D. Framework.
B.E.N.D. evolved over the last decade from my dissatisfaction with "Law of Attraction" and similar teachings which insist you just have to focus on your desires to attract them to you.
Long story short, B.E.N.D. stands for:
Boundaries
Desires
Needs
Expectations
Focusing on those four things will actually improve your life in ways both magical and non-magical.
I have them on a weekly rotation so I can give a bit of reflection time to each, over and over again, continually making improvements as I go.
B.E.N.D. evolved over the last decade from my dissatisfaction with "Law of Attraction" and similar teachings which insist you just have to focus on your desires to attract them to you.
Long story short, B.E.N.D. stands for:
Boundaries
Desires
Needs
Expectations
Focusing on those four things will actually improve your life in ways both magical and non-magical.
I have them on a weekly rotation so I can give a bit of reflection time to each, over and over again, continually making improvements as I go.
I bought my house for $4000 in 2020.
Which means I don't really have to worry about preserving resale value - I could sell it to a flipper right now for $20k cash.
So I'm seriously considering painting murals all over my walls.
Because why the fuck not?
Which means I don't really have to worry about preserving resale value - I could sell it to a flipper right now for $20k cash.
So I'm seriously considering painting murals all over my walls.
Because why the fuck not?
I love "eat the menu" type content.
It's one of my fave things to watch while eating dinner.
https://youtu.be/d9Hpg_cin_I?si=KoLRpOS-p5DuBVfw
It's one of my fave things to watch while eating dinner.
https://youtu.be/d9Hpg_cin_I?si=KoLRpOS-p5DuBVfw