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We all want to be patted on the head. We all want to know we are part of the tribe.

Clean Sweep

I’m watching in awe as this tool (a Chrome-based browser add-on) downloads all tagged photos of me ever posted to Facebook so I can archive them on my own external hard drives. Been putting this off for years because a huge chunk of my life documentation from 2007-2013ish only existed in photos taken by other … Continue reading Clean Sweep

One Thing Several Ways

“We are living through a transformative and dangerous era.”

Noodling in the Dark

We’re making our own internet out here and we owe it to each other to get it right.

One Quick, One Slow

Even if social media is crumbling around us, people can endure.

Thought Stream, Friday, 9:43am

The inclination to capture, even imperfectly, the feeling of swinging on a porch swing while I write and how pleasurable and correct it feels to be writing while in motion.

Current Feelings (But Also Actually Past Feelings)

“It’s rare that I feel dreadful while I’m having my tea and scrawling pages into my journal outside in the sun first thing in the morning, so whatever’s coming for me today will, at the very least, abate for a half hour tomorrow. This helps to remember.”

Supporter vs. Spectator

Who’s closest to making the work possible?

“We weren’t even watching ourselves”

“The “publish or perish” model that nudges people to rack up more followers is not the pinnacle of creative freedom; it’s indentured spiritual servitude.”

Unselfing/Reselfing

…a whole realm of people who could look at every passing thought and doodle and hard-won victory and low moment and interview and blog post and reflect back someone cohesive and true.