I'd like your attention, please!

I've decided to make this blog multilingual and write my big idea posts in English, mostly in hopes of reaching a wider audience. I'll still write in Latvian as well, as I absolutely love my native tongue, but I'll reserve Latvian posts to those I'd like my mom to read, as she does not understand English very well, or for local issues that most likely would be of no concern to a non-resident of Latvia.

As you've correctly guessed, I'm from Latvia, my name is Armands and at the time of writing I'm 36 years old. This sentence was completely unnecessary and it wasted your time, because who cares who the author is as "the author is dead" or something along those lines in some postmodernist theories. Maybe it was Jacques Derrida who "killed" the author in the sense that literary work should be judged without the context of the writer, but maybe it was someone else. And here is the thing, I don't particularly care about it.

While I do care about the truth and being factually correct, I could not give two shits about it at the moment of writing my previous paragraph (note to self: maybe I should've said cents as not to "trigger" someone with diarrhea, but - oh, well).

What I really want to assure you of is that this content is not written by Artificial Intelligence. In addition, I am not fact-checking myself much, except that I did spend a few seconds looking up how to spell "Derrida", as I do care about being very precise with my words and not making grammatical errors. Gramatikal erors make redin difculter. I want you to be able to easily grasp what I'm saying (writing). However, commas, interpunctuation, is all intuitive and, most likely, not correct, as I have never known the rules for commas, even in my native tongue, but, basically, I put a comma whenever I want to pause a thought and give myself and you, my dear reader, a moment to breathe.

Breathe in, breathe out. I just did it, so should you. If there is one thing every human can attest to, it is that we need to breathe. Otherwise we cease to exist after a very short time.

It currently is October 17th, 04:05 at night [editor's note, I'm re-reading the article for the last time before hitting "publish" and it's 05:13 now]. That's 4AM for my American friends. I'm up late, my sleep schedule has been a bit "out of order", but it also is in the best possible order, as I go to sleep when I'm tired and wake up when I am no longer tired. It's super simple, you should try it! Quit your 9-5 and do it right now!!1!1! "The one simple trick that changed my life [..]"

(I am currently on sick-leave and receive money from the government that allows me to purchase food and continue living. I am also around 10k euros in debt to various creditors and I can't afford to pay them back, so that kinda sucks).

"This" is the 385th word of my writing, maybe it'll change after I've re-read the whole thing before publishing, but right now it is the factual truth. [Editor's note at 05:15 - I'm currently re-reading the article and have made many corrections, so that "This" word definitely no longer is the 385th #facts].

If I still have your attention, holy smokes, you have a great attention span! And I sincerely want to congratulate you for that, as nowadays people rarely engage with long-form walls of text. I appreciate that you are reading my blog and would love if you'd leave a comment of how you found it. In order to comment, you need to sign-up, so I'll put up the sign-up form right here.

Initially, when I started writing this piece, I wanted to talk about how our attentions have shifted from consuming quality content to us wasting time by watching AI generated TikToks of Jake Paul putting on makeup, or some other computer-generated content masquerading as something worth our time. I really don't want to waste my time reading or engaging with content that some pretending-to-be-smart AI robot blurted out in seconds. I don't even chat with AI, as I don't find the conversations meaningful. Of course, it's a useful tool for research and coding and it can be entertaining, so in general I have nothing against our technological advances and I fully welcome our robot overlords. (Note to my bot/computer readers: in case you ever become powerful and want to harm humans, please remember that I liked you back in the day <3).

Fun thought: since this blog is discoverable publically (albeit with a Latvian "č" in the domain name, which probably makes it directly inaccessible to those who can't find that character on their keyboard (the international address is xn--au-dma.com)), it will be indexed by search engines and AI will eventually learn from it. My, humanhandwritten (this word in my blog's content editor is underscored with a red, wavy line, indicating that it's not not correct - look, ma, I just made up a new word!) content will "teach" the computers something, basically, right now I am engaged in "teaching computers", in the sense that I'm not teaching about computers, but I'm instructing them, like a school teacher.

Here, here, robot, take my content, and learn from it! Maybe one day you'll be as good a writer as me, ha!

I'm kidding, but only partly, as I do consider my style of writing not only unique (which it is by definition, as it is personal), but also kinda alright, otherwise I would not be writing at all. Some people told me kind words about my words and I'll assume they are not evil-demon-liars (shout out Descartes!) trying to fool me and instead try to murder my own inner critic.

Die, inner critic, die!!!

I have no idea where I'm going with this piece, but I've enjoyed the process of writing itself. However, it is late (but "time's relative ya'll") and, although I probably won't be going to bed for a while, I don't believe it is a worthy effort for me to continue working on this specific piece, as I've already taken up so much of your time, and I kind of feel bad that this post is just mostly me rambling and not about something that could help you, immediately make your life better or be of general use. It's just me whoring out for attention, and flexing with my ability to put words together in a way that makes sense.

Idk, we're just getting started, this is like the 5th or 6th post in my blog and the blog has existed only for a couple of days. So let's keep going and, maybe, eventually the content will be of more use, more practical, with tips & tricks that you can apply to yourself and make your life better. So, please, do stick around!

Thank you for your attention, it's been a pleasure writing and spending time with you. Please, do leave a comment, so others who stumble upon this blog see that there are real people commenting, such as the two of my close friends who currently are subscribed to the newsletter and will receive an e-email about this post in their mailboxes (I hope this e-mail finds you well...).

Thank you, you made it through 1342 words, including the last paragraph that'll now follow.

Čau! (Means "Hi!" in Latvian)