Supplemental Video

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

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.”

“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.

“You can be a carpenter this time around.”

I’m toying with the idea of Dunbar’s Digital Number. How many meaningful online relationships can I maintain?

Never Again

I’ve wondered with increasing frequency whether it makes the most sense to start consolidating everything on my own site, but the fact is there’s something valuable about maintaining these different tonal environments.

Zip Books

The Internet being hot for libraries gives me faith in society.

Eavesliking

“…seafaring makes obvious something that is always true.”

Population: Us

I fear I am admiring the problem, thrilling to ever more accurate descriptors that tell me precisely how and why I’m locked in this unfulfilling spiral, rather than taking steps to change my behavior.

Coherence

Offline we exist by default; online we have to post our way into selfhood.