> I'd like to stay a little bit unique for a year or so, if possible

You have six months, for that’s their release cycle.

Qwen, is that you?

My experience with it is that it tends to create such 3-word sentences when ask to write an article.

> write these things down in a journal

My added 2 cents is to write in a journal and also to read it.

If it helps, be meta and write about what you would want to look forward to read in your own journal, what kind of writing makes you keep going back reading it.

Certainly, an awesome evergreen entry is your reflection on a previous entry.

Just like material on how to blog, there are self-help books on how to journal well.

Solitude doesn't have to be a curse if we learn how to treat it as a blessing.

"It is said that the King of Siam used to make a present of a white elephant to courtiers he wanted to ruin." [0]

No King of Siam needed when the executives running the place competently wield their foot guns.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/white_elephant

Wanting to learn world history is like wanting to create one's own programming language.

A more feasible start would be to ask, "What is my world? What trends brought us here? When did they begin and how did they evolve?"