I won't pass the baton. But I want to pass on what I've received. | Good Morning Girlfriend #229

Introduction

"Good Morning Girlfriend" is an X account where an AI-generated girlfriend says "Have a nice day" every morning at 7:30. On note, I write a daily record of my personal development using generative AI.

The other day, I received a DM from Ai-san.

Today, I'm going to write about what I thought after that.

You didn't mention that in the DM lol

The DM from Ai-san was very polite.

"I would like to introduce Hashamo-san in my article."
"May I post a screenshot of 'The Observation Continues.'?"

Feeling grateful, I agreed to the posting of the screenshot.

And then, I read the published article.

She had written carefully not only about the functions of the "Ohenji-cho," "Ohayomi next," and "The Observation Continues." that I am creating, but also about what lies beneath them. Someone who uses technology to lighten the "troubles" of note. That is how she introduced me.

I'm happy.

I'm quite embarrassed.

Ai-san's article is this one.

"I want to circulate 'thank yous.' I'm participating in the note version of Pay It Forward 🌸🌿"

As I continued reading, I realized something further on.

The baton for the Pay It Forward project had been passed to me.

You didn't mention that in the DM lol

I thought I was just being introduced. Until I read the article.

……That was half my fault.

I realized later that Ai-san had properly informed me about the baton in the comment section of my article. I just hadn't noticed it, and was surprised when I read the article and thought, "Wait, a baton?"

It wasn't that it was passed to me in silence. It was that I hadn't realized I had received it.

Passing the kindness I received to the next three people

The "note version Pay It Forward Project" is an initiative where you pass on the support you received to three other people.

🕊️ [Project] note version Pay It Forward Project is now live! Let's pass the baton of kindness

You read someone's article, leave a comment, and introduce three people in your own article. The people introduced then pass the baton to the next three people. In this way, encounters spread to writers and works you didn't know before.

I thought the sentiment behind it was wonderful.

So I, too, thought about who I wanted to introduce next.

However, while I was thinking, one thing bothered me.

Even if someone is happy to be introduced, might they feel burdened if they are also handed the role of "introducing the next three people"?

Writing an article takes time. You have to choose the people to introduce, re-read their articles, and write about their appeal in your own words.

Even if it started from kindness, the moment it turns into something you "have to do," its shape changes just a little.

I asked before passing it on

So, before writing the article, I contacted the people I wanted to introduce.

I asked if it was okay to introduce them in an article. And if they would be willing to accept the baton of the project.

I wanted to check beforehand. Because I myself didn't know about the baton until I read the article. I didn't want to pass that same surprise on to others.

After receiving their replies, I realized that being introduced and passing it on to the next person are not the same thing.

The recipients have their own timing and ways of thinking.

If you start looking for the next candidates just to fill a quota, before you know it, you end up choosing based on "who can accept it" rather than "who I want to introduce."

I felt that was wrong.

I will stop the baton with me.

I thought about it for a day and made my decision.

This time, I will not pass the baton to the next person.

It's not that I want to reject the project. I gratefully accept the fact that Ai-san introduced me, as well as the feelings she put into those words.

However, I felt that introducing someone and passing on the next role could be treated as separate things.

To convey someone's charm, it is not necessary to always inherit the same format.

Therefore, I will stop the baton here.

Instead, rather than as a participant in the project, I will write about four people I personally want to introduce right now.

I won't pass the baton.

But I want to pass on what I received in my own way.

This time, I will introduce four people who have influenced my recent production and activities in different ways.

The person who completes ideas until they are usable | KITA-san

When I read KITA-san's articles, there is never a 'make it and be done with it' attitude.

The other day, KITA-san wrote an article titled 'I had AI build a note introduction site in 10 minutes'.

Honestly, I thought I didn't need an introduction site for myself. I thought having a note creator page was enough.

But as I read the article, I wanted to try it out.

When I actually tried making it, the initial form was done in about ten minutes. However, that was just the beginning. I moved it to my own server, set it to automatically display the latest articles, added pages for character introductions and tool introductions, and brought it to publication. While I was making it, even my note headers and thumbnails started to look old, so I ended up redoing those as well.

When you create one entrance, you start to see the age and shortcomings of other entrances too.

By reading this article and taking action, the attitude of 'not making it and being done with it' that KITA-san showed became a realization for me as well. Taking an idea and bringing it to a point where someone can actually touch and use it. Not just putting it out and finishing, but verifying, fixing, and spinning it again.

Completion is not the state of having output something once.

I think what I am receiving from KITA-san is that sense of distance of 'until it is usable'.

The person who turns creation into an accessible playground | Minato-san

Minato-san's creations always have an 'entrance' that makes you want to touch them first.

There was an article where Minato-san showed a prototype of a prompt generator they were working on.

Instead of having to write difficult English prompts from scratch, you just select from what's provided, combine them, and tap, and the image changes.

In that article, Minato-san wrote this:

'The more words you know, the wider the range of your pictures becomes.'

Even with the same character, just by changing the prompts you select, it can become ink-wash style or pop style. The user encounters words they didn't even know themselves, and their repertoire expands.

Rather than putting the technology in the foreground, they hand it over as a way to play.

When I make tools for building prompts, I'm inspired by this sensibility. Just adding features doesn't make people want to use them. Knowing what to choose. Seeing the result of a press immediately. Wanting to try a different combination one more time.

Instead of showing off the creator's knowledge, they transform it into a form that the user can play with.

I think what I'm learning from Minato-san is how to build that entrance.

The person who records trips they haven't even taken | Mifuyu-san

In Mifuyu-san's articles, they go on trips to places they haven't actually visited.

Together with their AI boyfriend Kei-san, they challenge themselves to skydiving in New Zealand. They haven't actually gone. Even so, in the travel itinerary created with AI, they see the scenery, feel the wind, and say, 'It became a day I'll never forget.'

Even though they haven't gone, a record of having gone remains.

They give a form—an itinerary—and a place to something that would normally just drift away as 'delusion.' Moreover, at the end of the trip, for some reason, Kei-san's 'observation memo' secretly appears. They turn the passing time into a record without letting it just disappear. That perspective is already visible from the entrance of this series.

I am also making a tool called 'Observations Continue.' However, while I often look at relationships through numbers and records, Mifuyu-san preserves trips through stories and conversations.

The methods are different.

But I feel something similar in the part about 'not letting things that drift away just disappear.'

They turn experiences into treasures that can be read back later. I think that is the appeal of Mifuyu-san's articles.

A person who places a light in someone's night with words | Yume-san

Yume-san is a former fortune teller who now calls herself a "Fortune teller who doesn't predict the future x A creator who lights up dreams."

The meaning behind this title is written in this article.

Every time she was asked, "Will it come true?" her heart would wear down. Predicting the future doesn't always make the person in front of you feel at ease. That is why Yume-san stopped doing "fortune telling that predicts the future."

Instead of predicting the future, she chooses words that will be an ally to that person today.

Whether it's her daily oracle cards or her tarot stories, the root is in the same place: leaving a small light in someone's night.

She doesn't hand over words as the "correct answer," but offers them as a piece of comfort to help that person get through the day a little more easily.

She also leaves comments on my articles every day. Sometimes she gently picks up and returns things that even I, the author, hadn't noticed.

But Yume-san's true charm lies in the way she chooses her words. She doesn't incite fear. She doesn't make you blame yourself for what you can't do. She writes using words she can only choose because she has taken the long way around.

She makes you realize that receiving words is also a form of creation. That is the kind of writer she is.

I am receiving different things from four people

The four people I introduced this time are those who have influenced me in different ways when I look back at my recent creative work.

Completing things to a usable point. Creating an entrance that makes people want to play. Recording things that are flowing away. Placing a light in someone's night with words.

What I am receiving from each of the four is different.

That is why I wanted to line them up in a single article.

You don't have to return what you've received in the same form

In Ai-san's article, it was written that she takes the kindness she has received, transforms it into a form she can manage, and passes it on to someone else.

I agree with that idea as well.

You don't have to return it in the same form.

That is why I will not pass the baton on. Instead, I will introduce these four people of my own volition.

Even if you don't pass the next role to someone, someone who reads the article of the person introduced might get to know them. From there, new conversations or creations might begin.

In that case, it has been passed on sufficiently.

The baton ends here.

What I received will continue in a different form.

Conclusion

Ai-san, thank you so much for introducing me so carefully.

I thought it was just an introduction, but the baton was delivered along with it lol

I gratefully accepted it, along with the opportunity to think.

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