blog redesign

A blog redesign. Why?

I want to write more often - a daily/biweekly blog. Shorter pieces digesting what I’ve consumed, what I’m thinking about or what is going on in life. A public daily journal.

I feel creatively unfulfilled. This is because I’m consuming more than I’m producing.

Worse is when I’m sucked into the digital River of Lethe, gulping down frivolous ‘content’ that enters one ear, and exits out the other, leaving me none the wiser. I fear that this is the reality of many given the incentive structure of the big tech firms that have so successfully captured the attention of the masses.

You have to actively push back against that by creating good digital habits, like one would create good work habits, or exercise habits or communication habits. Let me outline what that looks like for me today.

• Reading mostly blogs and long form content online, rather than ‘X’ or ‘Reddit’ etc
• Reading books - my jailbroken kindle is where I spend a good amount of time. Currently re-reading LOTR.
• Using ‘Freedom’ to block email, Reddit, etc on my laptop and work phone at least in the morning

And hopefully now, I want to add writing on this blog to those habits.