AI-generated analysis of my diary entries from November 20 1997-2024

• How the late 1990s were the harbinger of the 2020s in technology and culture
• On songwriting credits for instrumentalists in bands–does your guitar part qualify you as a credited writer?
• Having a general sense of curiosity about things as opposed to letting life wash over us and accept what’s pushed at us
• Using music theory as a metaphor (resolving cognitive dissonance)
• How social media keeps on the hamster wheel of content creation and creating news
• The trend of being anti-science and anti-facts starting under the Bush administration
• How generations process traumatic events depending on whether the experience was first-hand, and the potential of traumas being passed to younger generations
• The sunk costs of conspiracies or being in a cult.