I'm also thinking of going back to The Plague by Albert Camus. It felt really surreal when I read it over the pandemic. Want to see how I would feel now that COVID has become an endemic disease.

The other essential tools are a good fountain pen, a good notebook and a bottle of water.

You can finetune it to change the behaviour somewhat. But ultimately, there will be that AI flavour that you can't get rid of because of the way the LLM is trained.

- 2024 will likely see a economic rebounding and more positive growth across most sectors. - Social media will be even more toxic and internet will get even more fragmented. Election year ain't gonna be a help in that department. - AI agents performing automated task to be more common. The biggest buzz this year was obviously Auto-GPT, and still kinda miff that it didn't blow up by the end of the year. Next year should see it going mainstream. - Generative video to be an actual thing. There are some progress on it this year, but is generally crap/unusable.

Why not cast a wider web to services that have a bigger customer base? There are still need for other types of event organisation. Engage with clubs or professional event organisers, to understand what is their pain point and see if a solution can be made to solve them.

I don't see SO as just merely a repository. It's also a networking and collaborative channel, that may not be apparent to users who just drop by to get quick answers. The reduction of traffic would thus finally refocus SO back to this.