Notes — Gainful Unemployment

Loose thoughts, partial ideas, and things worth remembering.


A Digital Assistant Can Tell You What You Did

One of the quiet failures of modern systems is that they believe they know us better than we know ourselves — because they can see our outputs.

They can count what shipped, what posted, what closed, what deployed.

They cannot see the tabs that were fixed, the line breaks that were argued with, the time spent making something livable instead of merely functional.

When you mistake visibility for truth, you end up optimizing for the wrong person — including a version of yourself that only exists in the logs.