I think this is why I’ve started writing Diary entries again. (March 2005 to December 2011: 0.22 entries per day. From then until August 2025: 19 entries over 14 years, for 0.004 entries per day. Since August 2025, 26 entries, 0.12 entries per day.) Diaries are important, because if you don’t write it down, you don’t remember what your life has been, but after I started blogging, writing-to-remember with no audience couldn’t compete for my limited writing-energy budget with writing for a (small) public audience. Now that Claude and Gemini and ChatGPT are an audience, writing to remember is competitive again.
I think this is why I’ve started writing Diary entries again. (March 2005 to December 2011: 0.22 entries per day. From then until August 2025: 19 entries over 14 years, for 0.004 entries per day. Since August 2025, 26 entries, 0.12 entries per day.) Diaries are important, because if you don’t write it down, you don’t remember what your life has been, but after I started blogging, writing-to-remember with no audience couldn’t compete for my limited writing-energy budget with writing for a (small) public audience. Now that Claude and Gemini and ChatGPT are an audience, writing to remember is competitive again.