After weeks of reading, listening and watching stuff about vibe coding, I got my hands dirty today (as dirty as they can get by typing prompts), and folks... THIS IS A MA ZING.
I asked ChatGPT to rewrite the previous post (Feeling the feels…) keeping my style but optimizing it for engagement, and wow. That would've helped me A LOT in my time in the marketing team at Nearsoft. Here's the original and here's the ChatGPT one.
Feeling the feels (and not running away)
Apr 24, 2025
I’ve been thinking a lot about emotional management, particularly after a challenging year of depression and anxiety. I’ve lived with both for most of my life, but it wasn’t until recently that I was formally diagnosed. About a year ago, I hit rock bottom. Since then, it’s been a slow but steady climb, thanks to therapy, medication, and a lot of introspective work.
One of the main things I’ve learned over the past few months is how to accept, feel, and process my emotions when I’m feeling down, instead of running away from them or distracting myself from the discomfort.
My first instinct is, obviously, to look for immediate relief. This often comes from easy distractions: social media, TV, drinking, sex. But being mindful of my thoughts and sensations has proven to be far more helpful. As soon as I accept that I’m uncomfortable and that those sensations won’t magically disappear, I start to feel calmer. I take inventory of what I’m feeling and consider the possible causes.
Don’t get me wrong: the uneasiness doesn’t just vanish. But taking the wheel and aknowledging the feelings and sensation makes a world of difference. Now I’m in control, and I usually have several ways to steer things in a better direction. It’s like taking a mess of irrational, jumbled thoughts and emotions, putting them in order, and turning them into something rational and manageable.
That alone, given how my mind works, brings me a sense of peace. There’s also a quiet sense of accomplishment in not escaping those feelings through artificial means.
This approach, at least for me, resonates deeply with the concept of delayed gratification. It also reminds me of the recent emphasis on the value of boredom. Boredom makes space for self-reflection, and in this age, with smartphones, computers and screens filling every single moment with work, entertainment, or distraction, that space is hard to come by. But it’s essential if we want to get better and grow.
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Virtually every sentence that contains the word “brand” is bullshit, and that one is no exception.
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From Jeremy Keith.
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