I'm going to be real with y'all for a minute. I am so, so tired of voice-to-text. I like typing. I can communicate exactly what I'm thinking without having to reserve mental energy to get the thing out of my head. The keys I press are the letters that appear on my screen. I can type quickly. I can get my ideas out quickly. It's great. Because of my hand injuries and my cast, I am not able to type. This has forced me to become a power user of voice-to-text tools. They're not as bad as I expected. It was even a bit pleasant once I got the hang of it. But the more I use them, the closer I get to throwing my laptop out a window. When I screw up typing, I get like 1-2 letters wrong, and usually you can tell what was meant. Fixing the mistakes only takes a few seconds. When Wispr Flow fails to translate what I said, it removes and swaps random words in my statement, turning it into jumbled nonsense. It regularly removes keywords from sentences, like "not", "never", and "before". Do you know how big a gap there is between "never merge a change like this" and "merge a change like this"? Do you know how frustrating and embarrassing it is when actual damage is done by a Wispr Flow hallucination? Do you know how tiring it is to reread everything I just said, right after I said it, carefully checking that every word was transcribed correctly? Do you know how miserable it is having zero confidence that the thing you're trying to say will actually come out correct? It's so fatiguing. It is making computers miserable. I don't know how people live like this. I hate it. I want nothing more than to be able to type again. Given the choice between the ability to type and the ability to speak, I would legitimately be willing to give up my voice if it meant I never had to feel this way again. I'm just now realizing how much more irritable, frustrated, and miserable I have been for the past month because I can't use a computer in a way that is pleasant. I legitimately feel the sanity leaking out of my head every time I have to hit the Wispr Flow button. To everybody I've been ghosting or slow to respond to lately, I'm sorry. Know that I want to, but my inability to use a computer is driving me mad, and I don't want to respond when I feel like this. I'd much prefer to wait and give you the response you deserve rather than a pissed-off pile of slop like I would be able to do today. I had to make 12 corrections to the following tweet before I could post. Making those corrections took significantly longer than typing would have taken (if my hand worked).

I have a bittersweet news. I am selling Obviously I am super thankful for it to be valuable enough that I get to sell it. But it's a shame I couldn't figure out anything else to do with it. The buyer is its largest customer. The other one is being off boarded. The longer story is, that I never really found a use case beyond these two customers. I got fooled by the initial traction. I have never sold anything this fast. But once I tried to replicate this, I couldn't get any more interest. There is a business for sure, but not one I am interested in. And I think that's the ultimate problem. Cadastre came together because I found a unique way to obtain valuable data, package it into cohesive system and built a nice interface around it. This is valuable to customers that already do this by hand. But not many do. Most development and real estate companies have enough business in more traditional ways. I talked to some hedge funds and private equity that were interested in the data, but as one off. Not much value in repeated access. Now I know there is more than two customers in this county. And there are 3,007 counties in US. So I could just replicate it across them all. But this is quite a large operation. Profitable one, but not venture scale. Requiring lots of employees. And I am just uninterested in a large operation at this point. The other frustrating thing for me was watching 12 active users every day. I know it's silly. But there is nothing to learn from them. They do their job and leave. Nothing to improve. Every once in a while they would reach out and ask for me to add a feature. It mostly took 5 minutes. I know it's a lot of money. But I will rather work on something with higher usage and less revenue than the other way around. Thankfully I am in fortunate position not to worry about day to day income. So I can pick and choose what to work on. Ultimately this all lead to my decision to sell. The customer is not interested in the brand (never really built one), just the data and the engine. I get to make some money (more than most people make in 10 years) and can focus on other projects. So overall, this was a fun experiment, even though it ultimately failed.

I need one of those fake corporate jobs where I work remotely, get paid good money for responding to one email a day, keep my laptop on, attend one pointless meeting a week, and spend the rest of my time looking busy. Where can I get one of those?