parrexcellence.blog

Hello Reader! 

It’s been a while since I wrote a blog post, 13 years in fact! I crack up looking back at my 22-year-old self, thinking that I had experienced SO MUCH at that time in my life. Look at how far we’ve come today! I decided to revive my WordPress blog with an actual domain first and foremost because it’s time for me to return to my journalistic roots. In school, I was always better at personal memoir-type stuff than news writing. I now find myself wanting to share my experiences for the perusal of future generations. We are the news, baby.

In an era wrought with content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) as well as the prevalence of social media facades, I crave a space online where I can express myself as authentically as possible. My own corner of the internet. It’s important that I undo the damage that algorithms and mindless scrolling have done to my brain. Maintaining a blog will encourage me to reflect on past and recent experiences and will direct more of my attention to this blog than to those damn addicting social media apps. 

I also do not intend to ever use any AI tool to assist with my writing. This is 100 percent human. I’ve had people ask me if I’m worried AI will scrape my blog for learning purposes. I’m not. Nothing will ever replicate a human voice. I am me, one of one, the only ParrExcellence. The most unfortunate part in all this is that I have genuinely enjoyed using an em dash or two in the past. I feel like AI has completely tarnished this useful grammatical tool. Now, I did use AI to assist in my writing at work a few years ago and absolutely regret it with how things have shaped up lately. We have AIs hallucinating information, people who are unable to think for themselves without consulting their buddy “Chat”, and studies suggesting that over-reliance on AI for writing leads to a decrease in overall brain activity over time. 

I’m an aging dog, and it’s increasingly difficult to find the desire to learn new tricks. Oh well if this lowers job prospects in the future. This path feels so right to me in this moment.