I have not written any blog posts in a long while.
One reason is that for several months, I was rapidly learning agentic development with LLMs.
Another reason is that in this era, anyone can ask AI about any subject and get highly curated content in return. I felt I had nothing to add to the conversation.
My blogs are mostly read by bots, according to Google Analytics.
I decided to write again because, despite the availability of all knowledge resources, I realized there is still room for human-to-human guidance and mentoring.
I consume other people’s content in the form of podcasts and videos, and I wanted to share my lessons learned, too.
The world is changing so fast that we can only talk about lessons learned; everyone is a student now.
In the midst of AI doom and gloom, I believe that these days, you can truly become anyone you ever wanted to be.
If you want to study psychology and improve human interactions, you have thousands of books, study papers, and articles at the click of a button.
You do not even have to type anymore; you can have a discussion with the materials you study.
If you want to tackle an important global problem, you have all the publicly available knowledge at your disposal. Ask, study, make connections, both mental and with people on LinkedIn, and contribute.
As a software architect, I have a time of my life, too. On Saturday morning, before breakfast, I built a working knowledge database with a full user interface for my 112 AI agents and skills. That kind of thing would have taken a team two weeks a year ago.
In the next set of articles, I will share with you lessons I learned, but today I would like you to try an experiment. Take your favorite AI chat and try writing this:
“Please let me know what Uki has written recently on subjects that might interest me (e.g., stoicism, Japanese, habits, AI, LLM, career, mentorship, philosophy, lifestyle, writing, learning, health, longevity, zen, wabi-sabi) in his blog “https://ukidlucas.github.io/feed.xml”. Write a concise summary in 250 words.
Start there. You might find something you did not know you were looking for.
First published on Substack.