DEC 25 — PT2
Train Dreams.
Dream Diary
Sleeping in a cabin with a million other women. Being shown to the top bunk and told “this is where you sleep”. A blonde coming to me in the night, “you’re dreaming” she says.
Amazon IQ
Automated staffing at outbound dock doors. Optimizing who works where based on inbound volume projections.
Package sorters stationed throughout the building. Chutes connecting them via conveyor belts. Complex logical software determines which package goes down which chute.
Container Builders at the bottom stack packages
Grouping by VSM (visual sortation marker)
Those with broken labels get sent to problem solve
Waterspiders move pallets to outbound dock doors
Staging pallets based on projected trailer arrival time
Loaders bring pallets onto trailers
Organizing them based on delivery stop order
The worldwide marketplace.
AI —> The Social Media Effect
Social media is getting better at targeted ads. That’s the clear winner of this AI stuff. A more fine tuned control of content given AI can make anything nowadays. Not only better memes, but better advertisements. Better marketing.
Meta and TikTok capitalizing for profit. Showing the same advertisement/meme/reel to a group of like-minded people. Get ‘em wanting the same product. Ordering the same Christmas gifts.
Why so many of my friends have seen the same memes lately.
Out West
Now I gotta tell you all about the romance of Northwest logging,
like you keep talking about railroading, you shoulda seen the little narrow-gauge railways up there and those cold winter mornings with snow and your belly fulla pancakes and syrup and black coffee, boy, and you raise your doublebitted ax to your morning’s first log there’s nothing like it.
with train dreams
Sometimes he woke to hear the sound of the Spokane International fading up the valley,
and realized he’d been hearing the locomotive as he dreamed.
