A while ago I had the idea to basically make an "open workbook", a website that would have all the notes and experience I had gained as a type engineer, to provide a consolidated reference for those trying to learn to do what I do. Up until recently I still had plans to make it, but I realized that if I had done that as planned in ~2023, instead of training young designers, I mostly would have just wound up training various LLMs how to do my job, which is a sad realization. Now it feels like if you want to share a part of your experience with the internet, you're not sharing it with people directly, but to LLM companies that sell it back to users, just with your name scratched out and "Sam Altman" written over it. I want to pay it forward, but not to Altman et al