There might be questions of continuity of identity once you go hard enough, yet for sure I'd like to upgrade my own mind, even towards becoming a superintelligence myself –  whatever that'd mean. It feels different than handing over the problems to some other alien entity we grew.

As I try to live out the next few years in the best way possible, one of the things I'd like to enjoy and savor is that right now, my human agency is front and center[3].

Good typography is sooo much more than the font. Find your workhorses and then stick with them. Worry about size, contrast, readability and information hierarchy. Think about leading, tracking, kerning, orphans and widows. Do all that, and your typesetting will succeed. Ignore all that … but find the “perfect” font, and your typesetting will still fail.

yeah, using qtips in your ears is generally not recommended, even though literally everyone does it anyway.

most contemporary artists record at pretty high fidelity - typically 24-bit/96khz or higher in the studio. the recording stage itself is usually not the problem. modern recording tech is good and relatively affordable, so even indie artists can capture high quality audio.