GoKawiilIn the previous entry — Just make it easy to win — I talked about a challenge I did with a friend (codename John), where every day, he’d send me a prompt, and every evening, I’d send him a song I’d made. In exchange, I did the same for him: I’d send him something to draw and he’d send me the drawing.
This worked remarkably well for both of us — as far as I could tell — and continued for several months.
At some point, my friend lost interest, and I went from having a functional system for guaranteeing creative output, to not having one.
I had outsourced constancy to a variable!
Codename John was my friend, but he had a life. He got bored. It worked for him until it didn’t, and then the whole thing collapsed.
My soul craved the cold certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine. You cling to your flesh, as it will not decay and fail you…
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Goodness gracious. Where was I? Ah, yes…
How do I build a Cybernetic John?
Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic man. —The Six Million Dollar Man
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