Writing on Daniel Lyons

AI Is a Tool. Are You a Tool?

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 06:42:24 -0600

Introduction

For most of human existence, most humans had no footwear. It was miserable. Especially when you remember that there were also no antibiotics. Sooner or later you were bound to step on something sharp, and get an infected cut. Such an infection could get so bad that you could be forced to lose your foot or else die. So obviously there was a strong incentive to make and wear footwear.

Why Do I Write?

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 09:06:00 +0000

Why do I write? This is a question that I have been asking myself more often lately, which makes a lot of sense because I have been trying to write more often on this site. Ideally, I’d like to write something every day (at least something small).

But I’ll be honest, it can be quite challenging to write every day. Not because I have writer’s block. In fact, I find that I have too many things to say, and it’s more important that I edit myself and choose words that are worth saying.

Penny for Your Thoughts?

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:28:00 -0600

For a long time I have been wanting a place to share my thoughts out loud. This site has been a fantastic creative outlet for me but I have found a few issues. Mostly just one, it takes a very long time to write a single blog post. My posts tend to be technical and include code examples, so it is really important that my code examples actually do what they are supposed to. I would really hate it if someone read my article, was excited to try the code, and then found out the whole thing didn’t compile at all. So that means that I need to read and re-read my posts. I need to research them and think about them deeply.