Just in case you followed the tag australiana, I'll put that part first.
In the photo I'm on a beach outside Sydney
I'm wearing a hat with the word Eternity on it, in copperplate, that I got at (the gift shop of) the National Museum of Australia
I have struggled to find a better word that I would use, if I were to write one word half a million times
And I haven't found one
Eternity is the one with the most going on
In Jan 2025 I changed this blog's name to thinking
Also a single word that has two things going on
It was my author-name at Open Salon
I failed to save my best pieces before that shut down
And its structure had been unfriendly towards the wayback machine
Back then I didn't quite realize how ephemeral web content could be
I thought we were all writing for eternity
Grateful for the wayback machine, and its tracking of all my solo site plain pages
Where were we
It's the new blog's name
The blog's new subtitle
how you think about what you're doing makes a huge difference
comes from Kim Stanley Robinson
Almost from the beginning it was the content of my pinned post on Twitter
Hat tip to one of my long-time obsessions
The blog's original name (used until now) was let's play follow the reader
which referred to my lifetime (sometimes professional) interest in how people read online
You can call it another obsession if you want
Embarrassingly
(it's too early to blame the tool - a tool created when blogs were The Core of the human side of the web - I'll keep trying)
I haven't figured out how to apply a new layout, not even change the color, so right now those are the same as before
I've been able to tweak the columns a bit, but not enough
From the start I hated typepad's pre-provided blog Categories and I have never used them
so the only capital letters in the word cloud are peoples' names (well, ok, and a reference to a book name)
The postings are over-written, and I'm writing to myself, so that's why I call it a secret blog
People tell me that most of my writing (in email, on reddit, etc) has few comment hooks
And I understand that's why people may read but not comment
RAE?
tl;dr
I leave them no openings, I'm trying to say (whatever) all myself
Leaving no oxygen for anyone else
I've had 3 friends visit here and that was extremely fun
I'll share this with several friends as I try to explain what I experience with my brain
Why I am suddenly throwing down so quickly
(ideally leaving more oxygen, although the conversations I want to have are in person)
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