New Blue Sun

https://open.spotify.com/album/33Ek6daAL3oXyQIV1uoItD?si=eZQmBdP-Q2eCrRq4eURQeg

Any Distance Active Club

https://journal.lapse.app/friend_request?user_id=d64f22c5-1214-4353-a00e-6b2498bbdf58&name=Benny%20Bowden&invite_code=ig3

The moment the Kansas City Chiefs won Super Bowl LVII.

Ran a quick down-‘n’-back this evening. Thanks for the encouragement @beard and for building a kickass running app.

This is what happens when a creator allows themself to be led by intuition and inspiration.

Go listen to the new André 3000 album: https://open.spotify.com/album/33Ek6daAL3oXyQIV1uoItD?si=eZQmBdP-Q2eCrRq4eURQeg

Running hot sucks! 🥵

(And it’s not even that hot yet.)

The lack of a “quote” feature here makes me curious whether “Quote Tweets” on Twitter increase or decrease overall conversation.

Often, instead of engaging directly with something/someone, people will use a quote Tweet to share their perspective.

Is the “quote” pattern helpful?

Saw a physical billboard with an obviously AI-generated image for the first time today and... ew.

Poetry open mic night is one of the best parts of my week.

Gloomy Saturday coffee shop vibes. ✨☁️

Ragnar is in 2 weeks and I’m so close to being ready!

Daily reminder to drink water. 👌

Water is the elixir of creativity.

Repeat after me:

I will not make a scene.
I will not make a scene.
I will not make a scene.
I will not make a scene.
I will not make a scene.
I will not make a scene.
I will eat my mashed potatoes in peace.

//
A Thanksgiving Meditation
by Benny Bowden

First *very short* run back after the half marathon a couple weeks ago. My muscles are like WTF!?!?

The designers over at Any Distance should be called “Vibe Architects” instead. 😮‍💨✨ cc: @beard @travmckenzie

Smash a repost and you might get a free shirt https://store.anydistance.club/ 👀

@benny @cathy @jaesik @giayoung @rosalee @krystalskafe @yes @smh

A coworker just said this about the Open AI drama:
"Feels like we’re watching episodes of both Succession + Silicon Valley in real time."

...and that is the best take/summary I've heard yet.

Playing with Framer. Feeling good about this navigation. You can play with the interactions here: bennybowden.framer.website

Been training for a relay race with friends in SoCal next month.

Just showed up to a coffee shop to work for a few hours and realized my MacBook charger at home (20min away).

What would you do?

I feel like I have been running in place.

I’ve been writing poetry regularly for 3 years now and performing it for about half that time. Most of it has never seen the light of day.

So, get ready for a book of poetry by me — Benny Bowden — coming sometime in 2024!

Is the lack of video what makes Posts feel so calm and pure? 🤔

I know it’s coming soon and will be a welcome addition, but I’ve been enjoying the absence of moving pictures and sound here.

A Poem for a Math Teacher on Their Birthday
by Benny Bowden

Whether Xitter is dead or not doesn't matter. The important shift happening is that people are now publicly engaging with each other, in real time, in places *other* than Xitter — and that's a big deal.

Activity Pub can’t come fast enough!

When they send you a piece of paper to notify you that you’ve enrolled in “paperless document delivery.”

What if THIS is how AI destroys the world?

Maybe the OpenAI drama is just a recursive loop of ever more surprising twists and turns. Maybe it keeps us glued to our phones and the “news cycle,” just watching and scrolling until we all go mad. Seems plausible to me!

I like that this feels like arriving at a party too early.

For the book I am releasing in 2024, I am going to be very “out-in-the-open” with the process. Here’s why…

How is it smoother to AirDrop a file from Arc than on MacOS?? 🤯

"X (Formally known as Twitter)" 😂

Greatest grammar error ever.

The AI Pin from Humane is basically a smart pager. It even has its own phone number.

Today’s coffee. From Little Owl Coffee in Denver, CO.

Literally counted sheep to fall back asleep at 4:30AM last night. 🌾🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🌾

As your life begins to resemble the
Unremarkable stories you've heard of
Regular people,
You must decide:
Will you be at peace or at war with that?
//
Regular
by Benny Bowden

Might be starting to enjoy running with the pup more than running solo. 🐶

“You can't stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf.”

Not the fan I used to be of Owl City’s bubble-gum-pop sound… but this lyric from the new album is beautiful.

Flying Southwest was a vibe today! ❤️💚

The one thing Humane’s AI Pin makes clear is that OpenAI (and ChatGPT) is most likely going to fuel everything.

A little leather notebook I just picked up for notes and sketches.

Enjoying the experence over on the Lapse app so much. The “disposable camera” effect requires photos you take to “develop” over a span of a few hours.

https://journal.lapse.app/friend_request?user_id=d64f22c5-1214-4353-a00e-6b2498bbdf58&name=Benny%20Bowden&invite_code=ig3

In that stage where hanging with friends that have babies is super fun.

We’ve moved on
from:
“Software is eating the world…”
to:
“AI is eating the world…”

This is the set list of poems I
performed at the showcase a couple nights ago.

9 poems in 15 minutes — 3 of them are from my upcoming book (but I'm not telling which ones). 🤭

Made some tweaks to the navigation and started playing around with some typography.

Next up, I’m going to get a first blog post up where I can write about the process of designing my new website in Framer.

https://bennybowden.framer.website