#Writing Output/Newsletter
Random Walk Newsletter, Issue 33#
Observations & Insights#
It's been a while since the last update. Recently, I've noticed that many subscribed Newsletters have increased their update frequency. Once again, I've experienced how difficult it is to persist in doing something, especially with a fixed frequency. After a certain period of time, it can actually create a lot of pressure. For example, when I was memorizing vocabulary words, I started and gave up, started again and gave up again. I don't know how many cycles it took, but eventually I managed to stick with it.
I checked and it seems that I started writing Newsletters since the beginning of last year. I can give myself some credit for being able to persist until now, even though there were interruptions (each time I used the excuse of not writing just for the sake of writing to comfort myself). But after all, I never completely stopped updating.
Audiobooks & Books#
Delayed Gratification
I won't go into the concept of delayed gratification, but I want to share the aspects mentioned in the book that can influence delayed gratification.
- Emotions: If our emotions are not good, our self-control will decrease. Compared to people with good moods, those who often experience negative emotions are more likely to choose fewer and immediate rewards rather than more valuable and delayed rewards.
- Willpower: Willpower is an important but limited biological resource. It's like a muscle that can be exercised, but if you overuse it, the muscle will also get tired. So our ability to delay gratification is also limited.
The Era of Intelligent Creation
Finally, the author shared a quote, "David Holtz, the founder of the famous AI image generation model Midjourney, evaluates artificial intelligence as follows: 'AI is water, not a tiger. Water is indeed dangerous, but you can learn to swim, build boats, build dams, and even generate electricity with it. Water is indeed dangerous, but it is the driving force of civilization. Human progress is precisely because we know how to coexist with water and make good use of it. Water provides more opportunities.'"
From the above, it reminds me of a saying that technology itself is not wrong; it mainly depends on how humans use it.
That's all for this issue of the Newsletter. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me. Thank you for reading.