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Due to a rendering bug, this post is not available in the feed. Please visit https://writing.natwelch.com/post/766 to read it rendered. Raw markdown is included below.I read [Amanda Litman's Thankful List](https://open.substack.com/pub/amandal...) and figured I'd write a similar post. Last year I made [a post](https://writing.natwelch.com/post/749) like this. Might as well continue.This year I am #thankful for...- The health of my family and friends. It's not always g...

Due to a rendering bug, this post is not available in the feed. Please visit https://writing.natwelch.com/post/764 to read it rendered. Raw markdown is included below.I have started writing this post a few times, and I decided this morning I need to just get it out there. I use AI at work. A lot.This was not true six months ago. The tools are improving at a speed that I am impressed and also kind of scared? This week was the first week where I started to worry a bit about how AI is affectin...

Due to a rendering bug, this post is not available in the feed. Please visit https://writing.natwelch.com/post/763 to read it rendered. Raw markdown is included below.Well, shit.Last month I said I would need to write one thousand words a day. I did not do that. My current word count is 15,337, up from last months 14,225. My only saving grace is I did delete one story that made no sense, and was pretty short (around 500 words written), and replace it with something I like a lot so far.Sho...

Due to a rendering bug, this post is not available in the feed. Please visit https://writing.natwelch.com/post/761 to read it rendered. Raw markdown is included below.April was not a good month for writing. In [my last post](https://writing.natwelch.com/post/758) I net ~3k words in March. In April I net ~1k words. I can attribute this to two things: remaining very busy at work, and having my mom visit for two weeks. [![My mom and me on The Met rooftop](https://icco.imgix.net/photos/2025/0...

Due to a rendering bug, this post is not available in the feed. Please visit https://writing.natwelch.com/post/759 to read it rendered. Raw markdown is included below.Well. I had some hard drive and RAM failures. And by some, I mean a lot.First, some context. See [my previous post on my Homelab](https://writing.natwelch.com/post/745) for what the system was before this month. It hadn't had too many changes in the last few years. The only big change was adding Glass to split the workload tha...

Due to a rendering bug, this post is not available in the feed. Please visit https://writing.natwelch.com/post/756 to read it rendered. Raw markdown is included below.I found the episode of Search Engine ["What happens when a cemetery goes out of business?"](https://podpage.searchengine.show/wha...) absolutely fascinating. Both a history of burial in the US, a comparison to other countries, and a look at the business of cemeteries.This made me thi...

Due to a rendering bug, this post is not available in the feed. Please visit https://writing.natwelch.com/post/758 to read it rendered. Raw markdown is included below.Happy April!March is out the door, and it went by so fast.Some updates:- I did some research on publishing to make sure my understandings of cost and shipping times and things still line up with the research I did in... 2023. It does! So that's great.- I wrote 3843 words in March. This is a net change, so very possible I ...

Due to a rendering bug, this post is not available in the feed. Please visit https://writing.natwelch.com/post/757 to read it rendered. Raw markdown is included below.Hi there!I have two pieces of content for you to consume:1. [Search Engine: What should we do about teens using AI to do their homework?](https://www.searchengine.show/listen/.... [John Cleese's 1991 speech on creativity](https://youtu.be/nvKeu46jgwo?si=ozmqP......

Due to a rendering bug, this post is not available in the feed. Please visit https://writing.natwelch.com/post/754 to read it rendered. Raw markdown is included below.[![eggs](https://icco.imgix.net/photos/2025/0K..., a few weeks ago, I decided to stop eating eggs for breakfast. There's two main reasons for this:1. Price. A dozen large eggs is currently running around $10 here. 2. Fear. Bird Flu is kinda freak...

Due to a rendering bug, this post is not available in the feed. Please visit https://writing.natwelch.com/post/753 to read it rendered. Raw markdown is included below.Hey friends,For those of you who are not following my kickstarter, this year I am committing to posting updates every month. Here are the first two months:- [January](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...)- [February](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/......