because we love accountability, particularly public accountability - even if no one's here, turns out, it's always been the thing that got you writing the most: the cathartic and rewarding feeling of publishing words without the dramatic and assured broadcast to those who have varying amounts of personal context, with the purest form of attention - those who seek or stumble upon your work
As I'm writing the introduction to this backlog on October 31, 2021, I have been at a standstill, mentally, for many months now. The last thing I published on my personal website's blog was in March. In April, I think we were planning for our summer stay in Vancouver. In September and October, we were recovering from a wildly entertaining and satisfying summer of extroversion, sprinkled with moments of reading by the beach. Of course, you could say that I've been using my brain at work which is true but that has largely been extrinsically directed, by clients and in favour of the company with my personal interests and development as a supporting character. Writing is the main thing that I consider self-directed. Even other pursuits and initiatives are self-directed up until I have locked myself into the structure of the activity, bound to be influenced by others.
This is also an extension of my about on the main page. I've been wanting a casual internet drawer for my thoughts for a while now, similar to how Tumblr once felt. Huzzah! Here's what's on my mind these days.
If you, for any reason at all, would like to chat about any of these or see one rise to a higher priority, DM me on Twitter and let's be friends.
on new beacons of community - digital communities + discord
on wholesome games - why now? where did this movement come from? how might this shape the future of the games industry? (particularly console)
a better way to describe the intersection of tech and culture - too broad, doesn't mean much to me as it stands now
where and how curation is useful and when it's not (personal recs without sufficient context of recs in Substacks vs Matter's newsletter)
is there such a thing as techno-romanticism and if so, how would you define it?
a typology of virtual worlds (augmented fictional e.g. Pikmin Bloom, PoGo; virtual fictional e.g. Animal Crossing; virtual real (?) e.g. Rec Room, Horizon)
how to improve the (Canadian) undergrad engineering curriculum
the return of the personal blog - why? facilitated by who? and where is this living? (Mirror, reading.supply)
learning from public libraries in the Nordics (oodi in Helsinki, the new one in Oslo) on how to create inspiring, open-access spaces
on izakayas and omakase
how do you define your view of tech? it's not techno-optimism, nor is it techno-pessimism (does this definition limit perspectives on tech to an either-or, is this moreso a scale? if so, what's in the middle?)
on not following routines out of choice
on the need for changes of scenery (park walks, vancouver)
on poetry as the beauty of reality
on the staticness of knowledge work (sitting, standing, absence of even repetitive movement except for keyboard typing??)
on triangles and tensions (love triangles from kdramas, strongest shape in eng, etc)
on joy (the hedonistic outlook, how selfish can you be when it comes to securing joy?)
art and cosmotechnics
the future of science museums
eastward
hades
animal crossing new horizons 2.0 + DLC
stardew, cozy grove, sakuna
podcasts
tech, software
on cognitive dissonance
on metaphysics
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