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What is Audience Is Me?

Audience Is Me is a place for me to write, research, record, comment, play, explore, practice writing (I’m a little rusty).

Why just me?

For the moment, I want to explore and play. I don’t want to build an audience. I don’t want to be involved in social media and social networks. I don’t want to rate, like, engage. I don’t want to mess with subscriptions, newsletters or to compete in today’s blogosphere, or whatever content “creator-sphere” is spewing these days.

I do have some project ideas in mind and Audience Is Me is a good place to work on them, create briefs, research, document, which may be of interest to some. The app idea floating around in my head I think would be of interest, but I have more to do to figure that out.

At this time, Audience Is Me is a place to …

  • make sense of all the medical stuff I’ve been doing for the last 10 years or more … working with dad, mom, my own medical issues
  • define what I am temporarily calling MyMedical Base, which could eventually become an app … but more on that later …
  • introduce the Daily Health Report and the Daily Health Log and explain how these work … This is the foundation of what is becoming MyMedical Base.
  • write about consumer health technology; I’ve been working with this stuff as an aging consumer for more than 10 years, even longer if I include the chest straps, watches, and sensors I used when cycling 10 to 20 years ago.
  • write about medical caregiving, my own experiences, getting older, and end of life … but not now.

Warning: I will include other interests that many people, should this escape into the wild, won’t care about but I do — so be it. They’re all interesting. I promise not to waste my time or a visitor’s. I just have a lot of interests … like in no particular order:

  • soccer/football (St. Louis CITY)
  • baseball (beloved St. Louis Cardinals)
  • music (jazz, Tool, Radiohead, Tom Waits, and on and on)
  • books
  • movies and TV
  • science
  • dogs
  • food
  • art
  • tech
  • medical/health

I will stay away from politics and cultural bullshit because I want this to be a happy place, a safe place, not a doomscrolling crack dungeon (nod to the Dungeon Crawler).

This is for me. P.S. Before I start, I want to make a statement about AI and my use (or no use) of it. These are my damn words, all of them, for better or worse. Fuck AI. I learned to write, to string a few thoughts together, and how to spell. I’ll sink or swim on my own.

I will use AI for some research, which I will eventually document here: AI Declaration. But if I use any of that information, what results will be mine, not Gemini, Claude or Billy Bob’s AI — unless it’s Billy Bob Thornton. I’ll allow that.