/imagine a scene of a steam train leaving the station at sunrise --niji 5
To remember
Doing something is better than doing nothing
Doing something badly is better than doing nothing
Slow progress is okay, as long as I’m still making progress and be consistent
Don’t aim for perfection
Intro
I’m taking a one month sabbatical to recalibrate, relax, and most important of all, to learn about AI.
Why this is so important?
This is the first time in ten years that I have a month off. That used to be the norm when I went to school and with summer vacation. Even when I was doing internship, the work load was pretty light, so I still had a lot of time to relax.
But ever since I started working full time, I feel like I no longer have time to do my own stuffs.
So this time, I’m getting a full month to myself with no distraction. And I’m determined to make something out of it.
So what am I going to do?
The short answer is that I want to explore. Explore the AI landscape, explore all the new tools and advancements in the AI field related to content creations and creativity. This includes but not limited to: image generation, animations, sound/audio generation, voice acting, video editing (AI assisted tools).
What do I want to get out of it?
I don’t have any pre-defined goals. I want to keep it open and use a breath first approach to spread as far and wide as possible to understand what’s out there. Then I’ll refocus and see what I can do with all the different tools/approaches that I have gathered.
So to reiterate, the goal is to ==learn as much as possible.==
What are my stretch goals?
- Create a short animated video
- Create a music video for some random band/song
- Create a 10 year video
Conclusion
Go learn new things and have fun. Make mistakes. Make progress. Make.
Disclaimer
I put the "To remember" section at the very top, even before the "Intro" section. There’s a very specific reason for this. Knowing myself, I generally have very strong motivation at the beginning of every project, and then the interests would fades quickly and I would start abandoning it. Predicting that might happen, I want to reassure myself that it is okay even if I don’t get anything substantial out of it. It is okay to fail. It is okay that I lost interest. What matter is that I have attempted to do something different and it’s commendable that I’m doing just that.
This website/blog itself is testament to why even half baked or abandoned effort is still better than nothing. I purchased this site in April when I was just experimenting with automations and made automated posts from the openAI API. While it was working, I got bored and moved on to the next thing. To my surprise, the automated script was still ongoing all these time and working perfectly. When I had the idea to log my AI journey, I was reminded that I had this site up and running and decided to repurpose it for my journaling. That’s why there are a couple posts before today for some random weather report. I left them there to remind me what this used to be.
This long story is my way of saying that even abandoned project could be useful in the future. This is not a "license to fail" statement, but rather, this gives me the safety net needed to go out and explore to my heart content without boundaries.
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