Written by me.
Anything on this site will have been typed by my fingers. AI will not generate it.
Writing is thinking, my words are my thoughts.
I’m pretty forward looking, and a lot of my friends have asked why I’m ok with AI writing my code but not writing my words.
To me, modern generative AI represents the p50 of human experience. In a lot of places, I have higher than p50 human experience, and anywhere where I have less than p50, I’m hoping to expand and grow using my own skull.
Anything on this site, or anything on my social media, with my byline, will be written by me. No exceptions.
Anything that doesn’t have my byline but is on something I work with (ie boltfoundry.com etc.) you can probably safely assume AI wrote it.
Why is this your first post?
I want to share my journey from eager 15-year-old would-be journalist at dreamcast.net, to minor tech influencer, to startup founder, big tech employee, and now an Inference Engineer.
This is my story, and I think it’s important for you, dear reader, to know that I’m planning to spend at least 10x more time writing a post than it takes you to read it.
You are important to me, and even though I don’t yet know your name, I’m writing for you.
I care.
I’m building this for you because I think I’ve had a pretty deep breadth of experience ranging from traumatic upbringing to professional success… from the depths of depression and suicidal behavior to the joys of parenthood, self care and emotional management.
I want to share this so you can hopefully speedrun your own trauma, and if you can learn something from my life experiences and perspectives, I want them to be as lossless as possible.
I don’t want to diffuse my experience through the p50 of humanity, I want to present the p100 of Randall Bennett’s life.
I’m mostly going to talk about AI, communication, and mental health.
For me, the three areas of my life I’m most focused on are AI, as defined as post GPT machine learning, communication, as defined as talking to other individual people, computers, and large groups of people at scale, and mental health, as defined as learning from traumatic experiences that someone doesn’t choose, challenging genetic traits and less-than-ideal neurochemistry.
I am not just those things, I just know how to write about them.
I care about a lot of other topics. Feel free to ask! (If you’re a paid subscriber, you can access my chats.) The main things you can ask about: What it’s like to be a parent of 3 autistic boys, and 4 kids in general… moving to a place never having been there before… why having blue hair was fun and why i don’t have it now (i might write about this tho at some point)… how religion is basically the anchor of my entire existence (please ask! I don’t preach, it’s broadly applicable).
I’m not going to write about those topics generally just because I don’t really know how to approach them on a generalized basis yet. They’re things that are kind of unique to me, and require a more custom chat where I understand a person’s needs to tailor the message.
The religion stuff is especially important to me, but I don’t want to have people think I’m prescribing it as something that is universally important to believe the way I do, or that I should convince you of its truth or falseness. Or, that I’m somehow a good illustration of my religious habits / heritage.
I just want to focus on things that I’m able to explain in a free-er manner, that I can generally apply in a way that doesn’t cause me a lot of mental energy to say.
Thanks for coming, tell your friends, like and subscribe!
I’m building this for me as much as you, but I’m really hoping that I’m actually a decent communicator and my perspective will resonate with someone. If that’s you, then welcome! Hopefully you know others like you who I can help.
If that’s not you, then thanks for reading! You should still share it with someone else anyway.
A final note: I will use generate AI to generate ideas, and possibly be an editor, but I’m literally not planning to use it to insert text on this site. Anything read on randallb.com will have come from my fingers, videos, etc.