I was gonna perform the consternation I feel between my desire to appear smart/cool for you in this newsletter and wanting to email you my unhinged thoughts after drinking my 4th cup of coffee with no breakfast. But instead you get this un-edited jumble or words. Here are my drafts, things I was planning to write about and include in future newsletters.

I was gonna write about learning D3

and how I finally learned a skill that I have been procrastinating learning for 3 years. This would've been the P.S. (postscript)

yeah I know D3 (datass driven development)

— Nat "Slime Time" Alison (@tesseralis)

I was gonna write about Chat-GPT and Generative AI systems

and this would've been the subheader

chat-gpt write a subheader for my newsletter in the style of @mellogood

I was gonna use this series of links as a postscript

P.S. - IYKYK

P.P.S - jk, we don't gate keep here: Sun Yuan and Peng Yu "Can't Help Myself"

P.P.P.S - okay one more

I was gonna use these Tweets as future postscripts

it's bad to suddenly have an idea to code at 12:08 am

— Nicole He (@nicolehe)

dream setup

— @marty

I would love to visit a website in person someday

— jurdle (@jurndan)

typing "I'm evil" into google docs and then getting scared when I look at the screen

— rayne fisher-quann (@raynefq)

football and soccer are like gimme the ball i want that ball but baseball is all like fuck this ball get rid of it i hate it

— kim (@KimmyMonte)

Elsewhere…

Inputs

"What makes videogame labor exciting is the chance to fully enjoy rewards for your efforts" — Depression and Videogames

"With jokes and recipes and turns of phrase, it's impossible to separate created from internalized things" — These Recipes Aren't Ours

"The threshold for design is care and consideration for problem solving" — Can You Be A Designer If You Have No Training?

Outputs

I added an interviews section to my website
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P.S. - TBH, I'm writing this in response to the last story in the Inputs section

P.P.S - TB-really-Honest, I'm writing this as an excuse to send you a bunch of links