Here is my content.
I set out quickly slapping together an old, simple theme on a website I already had with big intentions of writing, blogging and sharing, but now that I’m here, I’ve forgotten all the ideas I had.
I’ve become disenfranchised with social media. I find it no longer makes me feel connected, and it’s not a place I feel confident that what I share will be seen by any audience. Instagram Stories were the closest I got recently to actually feeling engaged with the internet, but the disposability of them made it fleeting and impermanent. While that seemed nice at first, it offered no real reflection. And of course, I started chasing views.
I’ve heard the term “digital garden” tossed around a few times in the last few weeks. There’s a few interpretations I’ve seen, my least favourite being a “personal knowledge base.” I’m viewing it as a throwback to the internet of my youth – Piczo and Geocities – a space for me to keep, tend and maintain. To sow new seeds, prune and train growth and uproot that which no longer serves a purpose.
As a kid, that meant changing my “top 5 friends” list as the days changed or pseudo-intellectual ramblings on LiveJournal. I feel like I’ve grown a bit (tbd) and I won’t be posting about my “top 5 friends” but I think the ideas stand. Lists and ideas and memories for me to reflect on and evolve over time. I can’t promise that there won’t be pseudo-intellectual ramblings though, I mean, look at this post.
I’m currently working on grabbing and posting stuff that’s important to me out of various private tools I’ve used in the past for this sort of thing.
I don’t know where this will take me, but I’m excited to try.