As a rule I’ve done more thinking about writing than writing in the last few years. I’ve thought also about my feelings about writing, about notions of ‘productivity’, ‘progress’, and at least a little about ‘work’. I aspire to be someone who contributes to the world of ideas, culture, and media in whatever small way …
Category Archives: personal
Comfort, Complexity, & Web Publishing
I’ve been using jekyll to publish this site sporadically for years. I have in the last year or two gotten a new computer set up with a publishing workflow that’s typical of sites on this platform: a local install of jekyll to build the site with a local copy of the markdown and associated files …
YTD – April 2018
There is a lot to be said for taking a long view in your life. This certainly seems to be getting easier as I get older here on the threshold of my 32nd birthday, about a month from now. Some things/projects I’d like to find time to work on more this year are: Essays here …
2018
The start of a new year is always a good time to try and cultivate new and/or better habits. Having finally switched computers, hosting platforms, houses, marital status (unmarried & co-habitating in a nice apartment to married in our own house) I’ve kicked the tires here and gotten a publishing workflow set up again. The …
Gibson’s Jackpot, in Summer
Just finished Reading The Peripheral and it is always good to read a novel that feels wholly complete at its conclusion. Gibson has a mastery of the form that I cannot currently express, as I don’t have much space in my head of late for critical thinking. I do have that sense of the book’s completeness. There’s …