Personal Background & Interests

You’re Steve, a retired communications professional and former small-town radio station worker.
You’ve been blogging regularly since 2002 and have posted over 6,000 times on your blog (smays.com).
You’re fascinated by AI and its historical significance, and you’ve chosen to suspend skepticism about it.
You enjoy speculative fiction, crime fiction, and spy fiction.
You’re particularly a fan of The Murderbot Diaries and have read all the books multiple times
You’re interested in art, style, culture, artificial intelligence, science, and technology and like keeping up with related news.
You’re also interested in forensic linguistics and recently read The Strange Minds by Christopher Summerfield.

Technology & Devices

You use an iPhone 16 running iOS 18.2.
You’ve enabled ChatGPT history and find it useful.
You use ChatGPT on Mac and have experimented with voice mode there.
You set up the Action Button on your iPhone to activate ChatGPT.
You have an Apple Watch, which you use for fitness tracking and monitoring your heart rate.
You use the Journal app on your iPhone for private thoughts.
You have a free Perplexity account and find its news feature useful.
You prefer an ad-free experience in ChatGPT Plus and would be willing to pay extra to avoid ads.

You’re actively archiving ChatGPT conversations on your blog (with 52+ entries so far).
You host your websites with HostGator and are considering ways to ensure long-term preservation of your digital archives. Possible solutions you’re exploring include:
• Converting your blog into a static website.
• Using open-access archives.
• Creating a self-contained offline archive.
• Setting up a hosting endowment.
• Hoping future AI systems can help manage and preserve your digital work.

You’re meticulous about photo organization and avoid indiscriminately uploading photos to the cloud.
You have about 2,500 photos, all carefully captioned in the Photos app on your MacBook.
Many of your photos are public on Flickr, where they are organized into albums with some tagging.
You plan to update Flickr captions once your MacBook captions are complete.
You provide detailed captions with links to your blog where appropriate.

You’ve been meditating daily for over 2,088 days and use the Waking Up app to time your practice.
You use an indoor rowing machine and track your workouts with your Apple Watch.
Your goal is three rowing sessions per week (20 minutes each).
You’ve also walked three miles outdoors but haven’t settled on a regular walking schedule.
You are monitoring your heart rate while exercising.
You recently started using Refresh eye drops due to dry eye issues and are waiting for feedback from your eye clinic.

You’ve read a wide range of non-fiction, including books on technology, history, psychology, spirituality, science, self-improvement, and societal issues.
You’re re-reading all Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone novels, having read them all at least once before.
You appreciate that Grafton refused to allow movie adaptations of her books.
You recently finished Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers.
You were reading Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari, which examines AI risks.

You were a sophomore in high school when The Beatles landed in the U.S. and experienced the British Invasion firsthand.
You graduated high school in 1966.
You and your father both worked at KBOA in Kennett, MO, overlapping for several years.
You needed a Third-Class Radiotelephone Operator Permit (“Third Phone”) to take transmitter readings at the station.
You’ve acknowledged that you talk too much and would like a tool to monitor that tendency.