I’ll be real with you all. I have a few goals I have been working on for literally years, including things like “read 52 books a year”, and “develop a morning routine”.
One of my technology related goals has been to use this space more for my ~posts across the web. I’m almost weaned from instagram (and can tell, as I get angry about how different it is every time I use it). I will keep my twitter until the day the web servers fall over / we see our final fail whale / they take me away … but … I don’t really spend time there any more. It’s fuller of spam and bigotry than it ever has been, and I’ve opted to time box it a lot more restrictively.
It’s wild to think a website I used to spend upwards of probably six hours a day on is now in my life for about 45 minutes a day. Nothing gold can stay, and twitter was never more than pyrite.
I still check in to see what my internet friends are up to, try to help my poorer friends get visibility for their financial asks, and see if the excellent curation I’ve put years into fine tuning has bubbled up quality journalism. Also people do post pretty good TikToks there and that’s nice, as I won’t be learning a new app.
So, in the spirit of a new year’s resolution and doing things differently – welcome to this short first post of 2024. Look forward to content this year like: book reviews, home project musing, and (coming soon!) an entire blog post about gold bond lotion. What would you like to read more of? Let me know!
In the interim, make sure you’re wearing a mask, drinking water, sleeping as much as your schedule allows, and finding a way to laugh and build community as we experience the fall of Rome. Love y’all.
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