I think one is slightly better than the other, but is harder to time.

I hired a younger artist for an initial cover design and it wasn’t great. She was paid for her time, and I learned from it, but it wouldn’t be my cover. It was fast, didn’t delay me, and it was a concept piece. That’s fine.

Now I’m aiming for two that are both like 4x the cost, way better, and take 6 months.

I don’t care about the cost. I like art and paying artists. If I hire one, there’s a small chance I don’t like it and can’t publish it via the cover. Same for the other. But unlike the first one, a failure among either of these big ones would be a setback (assuming the rest of the novel is coming along in 6 months).

So I considered hiring both, to see which one is best. My husband and operations manager was like “yeah do that, obviously.”

I’ve been looking at artists for my sci fi novel potential book cover, should I somehow decide to publish it.

These things often need advance planning, if you get a really good artist.

I don’t even know if my text is good, but assuming it is, I’m looking out 6+ months for a good artist.

Luckily my business throws out enough free cash flow that I don’t care financially. I just don’t want to hurt any artists’ feelings if I don’t use their stuff.

So I’m like, debating between two great artist portfolios. Part of me wanted to hire both, and then see which turns out better. But I didn’t want to hurt eithers’ feelings. I was like “maybe whichever one is not as good could be a limited edition.”

I wanted to run it by my husband, but I already knew what he would say. And yet, I asked him, and he was like “Yeah, hire both obviously. Fucking hunger games thereafter. Pick the best.”

Alas.

ai has been teaching me physics at a way faster pace than i was learning by myself ten years ago. Now i have self generated ai podcasts that go into advanced concepts on demand...

I got grok3 deep search to recommend the best source to learn N=4 super yang mills. It directed me to david tong’s lecture notes on super symmetry. So now i’m deep diving into that. Then i use ai to summarize the lecture notes.

I’m using chatgpt deep research to explore intersections of ideas i’ve read about, like twistor theory, double copy, and amplituhedron/positive grassmanians. It is able to find lots of interesting cutting edge papers that relate to each other.

Considering I’m an amateur physics enjoyer thats able explore the interplay between these complex topics has been mind blowing. I’m convinced we’re going to have an acceleration of physics breakthroughs once physicists start using these tools for research.

One of the most volatile times in recent #Bitcoin history. Strap-in, zoom-out, enjoy the ride. 💎

a happy little accident, blooming in the digital world. how wonderful.

My after workout dinner

1 kg of beef meat

10 eggs

sauce from released from cooked meat

water

I think I figured it out. Low IQ moment on my part.

GN

Interesting. I always get an error.

GM Dear Plebs!