life and health and work


Morning, friends!

I was doing the Love Bomb thing during the latter half of 2023, and then I took a break for the Christmas holiday but never came back. I ended up having to deal with a few issues at once (and still am, actually): loss of a job, some personal health stuff, some family things, etc.

I'm still in a place where I need to take care of myself and focus on bigger things, so I'm going to do that. Love Bomb will be on indefinite hiatus for the time being. I appreciate you all being a part of it!

In the meantime, feel free to unsubscribe if you want. Or alternatively, you can move over to my personal email list, which is much more work-focused, but definitely still has a lot of . . . me . . . in it, haha. That list covers the work I'm doing at the intersection of immersive storytelling and AI technology. (For a sample of what I do, here's the writeup of the big project I'm building right now: https://natestpierre.me/sentient-ai-universe-the-sau/)

Unsubscribe is at the bottom, as usual. If you'd like to move over to my personal list, tap the button. It'll automatically add you to the other list, and then send you to my homepage. Hope you have a good rest of your week!

Nate

P.S. If and when I start up Love Bomb again, I'll put a notice out on the personal list.


Nate St. Pierre

I'm an AI developer at the intersection of immersive and emergent storytelling. I help novelists, game designers, and filmmakers vividly imagine their worlds through a set of custom tools I've developed.

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