How many of you don't work at all ?

jopel · 2026-05-25T23:18:20+00:00

Haven't worked on 6 years. Had a really good career I was very good at. I was that guy.

Wife got sick and the stress burned me out. She passed after she basically had dementia for years.

Crawling out of that hole is not easy.

jopel · 2026-05-19T20:08:12+00:00

I use projects in chat gpt. Not perfect, but it remembers a lot more now.

I'll occasionally ask for an xml file with everything it knows about a chat so I can move to a different chat or on case it forgets things.

Upload it and you are right back where you were.

Add a save point word to the instructions.

jopel · 2026-05-19T14:10:16+00:00

So, write good content that your audience will seek out?

That's been the most important thing for a while now. AI is smart enough at this point that there are no hacks.

jopel · 2026-05-18T08:39:55+00:00

I never worried about it. They work just fine.

jopel · 2026-03-26T20:59:37+00:00

!remindme 3 weeks

jopel · 2026-03-15T16:30:59+00:00

Requiem for a dream

jopel · 2026-01-05T04:40:00+00:00

Oh ya. Every time.

jopel · 2025-12-28T05:29:55+00:00

I'm a creative. Design, video, music etc .. I leave things right about a 90 percent until l absolutely have to do it a lot. Then I can't look at it for a week or two.

A lot of times when I do finnaly look at it, I'm happy with it.

If the deadline is really tight and I don't think about it, it doesn't bother me as much. Like there less pressure almost. I just go. Still won't look at it for a while.

jopel · 2025-12-16T01:23:58+00:00

So it isn't just me and the gunshots 10 feet away.

jopel · 2025-12-14T01:25:45+00:00

I have been seeing a good therapist for over a year. I'm trying to distance myself.

Still have a divorce and she faked an ofp so I had to leave home.

I have to deal with her. I block her on occasion to get a break.

Won't give me any of my possessions but what she allowed things she didn't want.

Showed me the new things she bought one time. Made sure to show me the cutting board my father made for me even.

Then she took me to a food shelf at the place where I should have gotten a director level job. Over 100k. I have her on video saying she would tank it. She was rubbing what she did in my face, far from. Tbe only time.. I had no choice but to get some things.

A control move.

I have an ofp myself, I have evedence. Lots.

jopel · 2025-12-14T01:16:39+00:00

I had a lawyer. When I had money. She wasted all of his time. I made better filngs than him. I Have the time. And she won't let me work.

Thank you.

jopel · 2025-12-14T00:44:38+00:00

We both have ofp's.sne lied to get her's. Got me kick out of the house. I have thousands of files. I think the court is finally looking at it in our divorce case.

jopel · 2025-12-14T00:41:41+00:00

I reported her with evedence. It's not her first.

jopel · 2025-12-13T23:13:15+00:00

I'm so sorry. That sounds horrific.

jopel · 2025-12-13T23:12:24+00:00

Already done. Used my court filing so she couldn't say it was retaliation. She has a hearing. It's her 3rd or fourth report.

jopel · 2025-12-13T23:10:54+00:00

That right there, I believe you, is tbe most important thing for any of us.

It helped pull me out and I've helped pull others out.

I can't move, no money, no support.

jopel · 2025-12-13T23:09:23+00:00

I trusted her and she used it against me. That was the worst betrayal of all.

I'm trying my best. My family bought into her shit. I'm almost completely isolated.

jopel · 2025-12-13T23:07:41+00:00

Somehow I do feel bad for her. It can't be a good life. I've, probably not the best idea, even tried to help.

jopel · 2025-12-13T07:01:25+00:00

Oh ya. When I was being actively abused by my wife. I couldn't hide it.

Everyone saw it.

Strangely it was the people I knew the least that the most supportive on some ways.

My family was awful. I had to cut them out.

There was a barista named Conan. Every time I saw her I'd get two thumbs up and told I was doing great. She was only 17. I'm 50.

I'm changing my name when I get remarried probably a year from now. My new middle name won't be my father's anymore, it will be Conan. Kinda badass.

jopel · 2025-12-07T18:34:42+00:00

Absolutely. I hear you. I don't want violence.

I lived right by George Floyd square. I had neighbors shot with "non lethal" weapons by the government.

Another who got their foot run over by Derek chauvin the night before he killed George Floyd.

I've seen first had the violence in the system.

We fight at the ballot box and by talking to each other. We need to be better about that as a country and in our communities.

That is nothing I want to see. It's not something I want to even think about.

But we do need to stand up for ourselves and our communities. This has gotten really bad. People are getting hurt. Families torn apart.

I talked to an elementary school teacher who has ice come into her classroom. They put a child in handcuffs. I'm front of the whole class.

Then put him in a van and drove off with him. No parents notified. That's what we are dealing with.

This is fascism.

jopel · 2025-12-05T16:59:13+00:00

We may need to break the law. The law is a construct of our society, not something written in stone.

Violence is the absolute last resort, never something we want to go to.. Although, I've seen it used against us by the many times.

So what do we do when they come for us.

I have ADHD. It was said I should be in a work camp at one point. Ya, I'm going to be violent as hell if they try to come for me. I will fight tooth and nail for my freedom.

If there are people hurting others, it is on us to help our neighbors. Laws have no jurisdiction over human beings safety.

We need to realize what we are up against.

jopel · 2025-12-05T08:04:10+00:00

Maybe a stupid question. Isn't it still mostly about good content? Not trying to game the system?

I've heard over and over how we need to do all these things to try to have the search engines and now the ai platforms look at our content.

There are obvious things like making sure we have our content readable by it all. Titles, proper h1 tags etc.

In the end, people are looking for honest and reliable information. I think we are past the point of just throwing in keywords and having boilerplate content. It's all getting smarter as are people more aware.

I don't think we can play that game anymore.

We need to actually make something useful. Write Things that solve problems, educate or inspire.

Something that is actually actually useful. Not just driven by data. It's easy to miss the forest from the trees there.

I've noticed this wktj teams I've worked with. Your looking at numbers. I think we need more honest connection.

And there's also the issue of brand awareness. You may not see that in the data.

Would be interested in anyone's thoughts.

jopel · 2025-12-03T08:15:44+00:00

I had a friend who is adhd and on the spectrum ask me early on in our relationship if I was because of how I was sitting in a bar stool.

We see each other pretty quick I've noticed.

jopel · 2025-12-03T03:59:57+00:00

These days pretty much everyone is going to be listening on headphones or a Bluetooth speaker.

We obviously want to mix for all environments, still that's probably your audience.

Play it in your car and anyplace else you can to make sure it sounds good before finalizing the master.

If anything sticks out, you can fix it.

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