Misery loop
Winkletter • 28 Mar 2024 •
I’m stuck in a positive feedback loop. I wait until late in the day to post my daily newsletter. I wait until the last minute when I’m tired and begging for sleep. Which means I feel miserable as I do the work.
Guess what happens when I feel miserable doing work? The next day I procrastinate. I procrastinate, so I feel miserable. I feel miserable, so I procrastinate.
I need to keep pushing myself to start and finish early. Do the work in the morning, and set a deadline for earlier in the day when I’m not fighting against mental exhaustion.
Meanwhile, my PC keeps pumping out new header images. I’m at 6k images generated, all in the surreal black-and-white style similar to my previous stack of images. It’s like having a stock photo site where every image has a consistent style.
Comments
Yeah. Positive feedback loops lead to imbalance, while negative feedback loops lead to balance. Who decided that?
That video is interesting. We probably will see a lot of AI used in music videos from here on out.
A positive feedback loop for misery took me a second to process. These images reminded me of the music video for the Imagine Dragons song Thunder that I found quite disturbing: https://youtu.be/fKopy74weus?si=lzIX4XxdxFh6Ewcx