For me, both are methods to express myself. However, for my entire life, I've tried to shoehorn myself to just one form. As an avid movie watcher, I wanted to be one of the cool supporting characters, narrating my life and journey. Young Sheldon immediately comes to my mind. As an extremely avid reader, I've also felt that prose is the way to go. Making people understand and visualise your emotions based on what you write. There's just a certain allure to both of them independently that draws me to them.

However, as I learned about things before writing this, one alone isn't enough. I'd need both. And boy am I using both of them.

My current workflow will probably baffle a lot of you. But it's good. All of you can rest assured about that. If there's one thing I'm good at, it's removing inefficiencies.

Anyways, away from the self-beautifying talk, here's what I actually do:

• Record myself with wf-recorder on my thinkpad E14 with my Boat Airdopes 148.
• Split the audio alone using ffmpeg into a .wav
• Use openAI's Whisper to convert the audio to text.
• Make corrections if required.

There's a really good reason I prefer text, and that is the preservation property and significantly vast support for text. It's easier to store, read, parse, and easier to work with in general. And that's really helpful. Actually. Like, I can't even describe it. Significantly less storage, version controlling built specifically around it, LLMs having an easier time parsing it now, and for most part, in the future as well.

Audio, on the other hand, is what gives it the human touch. It's nice. Very. To hear yourself from over the earbuds in a muffled and deep voice, making you feel narrated and a narrator in the same go. It's, just, human… while recording atleast. Makes me express myself very clearly. And helps me feel alive. And lets me vent my emotions out. I'm not very good at that really.

But listening to yourself, talk about you, it really helps. It puts things into perspective. It makes me feel… alive… really alive. It makes me feel heard and accepted. I don't think anyone in the real life would ever listen to me talk about myself. People just tolerate me for the most part.

I think this is it for the ranting part. It has been nice, really nice…