• Good morning.
    • Another day of virtual all-hands.
    • Plenary talk at 8am over Zoom while I make breakfast
    • Far easier to "hide in my hotel room" for this all-hands
  • Feeling in better spirits & energy today
  • THIS IS JAVASCRIPT!
  • I've put in a bunch of work lately to revamp / revive my web presence. Why?
    • New blog, new notes, new edition of old notes
    • Thinking out loud in potentially sharable form seems valuable to me
    • Yet I don't really seem to get a lot of folks reading or reacting to what I share
    • I don't really emit a ton of noise about what I have available for sharing
    • I think I have a notion that if I get enough out of my head and into public form, something in that pile will catch or stick.
  • Again, why am I writing these notes and making them public?
    • I want to actually do some more published writing about things I'm thinking
    • I've been unsuccessful at just sitting down at a blank page and conjuring coherence
    • Since my brain is a pen plotter drawing unoptimized paths, I hope to accumulate coherence over scattered moments
    • Maybe coherence happens before I think it has and someone stumbles on something worthwhile in my babble here?
  • I've done a lot of writing and thinking over the years
    • But it's been all over the place and rarely focused in any particular sustained directional effort
  • I've not been as successfully productive in as coherent a form as I'd like
    • Some of my peers who have also done a lot of writing & thinking over the years ended up producing more books & talks & personal brand & noisy careers
    • Of course, survivorship & selection biases leave me with little impression about my peers who have gone quietly yet successfully & happily about their lives
  • Trying a renewed effort to get my shit together and maybe conjure up some coherent efforts
  • Thinking about rejection sensitivity and persistence
  • Of course, it occurs to me that an explanation for my self-perceived lack of productive traction and focus is that, well, I don't actually have any good ideas amongst all my thinking & writing 😅😰😥
  • Reviewing some of my old daybooks, I remember writing this stuff about my Dad & me
  • Dave Winer says "News has been unbundled" and I must say I agree.
    • "But today the news industry is still set up as a business as if I'm going to get my news the way I did in the 70s. And how are they going to convince me to do this? A paywall. The price for reading the article that's caught my eye is to give them my credit card and the right to charge me $10 per month for perpetuity. No. The answer is no. Always no."
  • https://decafbad.com/skein/
    • Oh hey, I forgot about that short-lived attempt to get myself writing and publishing more fiction on a little side-blog