Transcript: Just taking a walk back home from my hike and ran into Steph. And we've been texting back and forth and are in some group conversations and inviting each other to events that we're hosting and whatnot. But the couple things that like popped out are... I don't want to be sick anymore. An upcoming salon that she's co-organizing on AI alignment problem and inviting some speakers for that. And that's going to be sometime in March. And then the next thing is older startup week is in the near term radar. And I was thinking it might be cool to host a little site craft type event there. Just to get like physical experience of making websites and building things together and yada yada. I think that's sometime in April, May, if I'm not mistaken. And yeah, we kind of discussed the possibility of some sort of tool to help us keep track of all these nascent projects and opportunities and social things. Don't know where they go and how to solve. What kind of tool could possibly help us organize all this stuff? One specific instantiation of it was a tool to help facilitate the organization of projects before people are invited. Basically like helping you map out key things, place, time, who are the speakers, what are the needs for the resources. A bit like project management software, but for events. And yeah, talked a little bit about the online offline bridge between communities. And the fact that you can meet people through online communities, but then your online community can make a physical place together. It's a circular loop. Anyway, that's kind of it there. Yeah.
The speaker did not complete their weekly review, which usually provides clarity and insights for the upcoming week. Despite this, they have many projects, personal life commitments, and community efforts to attend to, not to mention taxes. They plan to set week intentions using voice instead of writing, including the exploration of websites for the Diagram Website Explorers Club and developing a Canvas element-based editor for Daily Jam. The technical aspects of this project involve real-time data updates, efficient pixel manipulation, and secure user authentication through tokenization. A function is set to run every five seconds to update the canvas with the latest pixel data, ensuring all viewers see a consistent image while minimizing performance impacts. Other tasks include preparing tax paperwork, organizing Boulder events for systems and AI, and sketching ideas for a project called "co-net." The intention is to spend more time outdoors in the nice weather and to schedule the next "Site Craft Hang," while thinking about potential content for the "Explorers Club" website. Overall, it's a productive Monday morning with good weather contributing to a positive start to the week.
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