Current status: 80% complete (beware of Pareto’s principle).
Current satisfaction: 60% (I can barely tolerate it now).
Current qualms: sloppy and unpolished. It’s ugly. Ugly makes Mark unhappy.

Yesterday, as I was reorganizing my constellation of websites, I questioned if I should be fragmenting everything I write under different domains. It seems my will between integration and fragmentation has multi-year cycles because I forget the reason why I integrated several websites into one or why I divided them. So here’s a reminder to myself of the future: I must understand why I fragment so I can integrate with intelligence in the future.

For the past few years I’ve been writing in exploration.work almost exclusively. The original intention was to move away from method.ac/writing which was supposed to be for register work done on Method of Action, but it unwillingly became a journal, and I would feel uncomfortable oversharing with my “professional audience”.

So this is why I started exploration.work, which is decidedly a journal and yet I wanted to have conversations with other people. And I wanted to keep track of my movement practice. It kinda exploded in complexity before I even started, here’s the current list:

  • memela.com — a best-of across the network
    • exploration.work — an aspiring artist in search of his medium
      • journal — work as an act of curiosity
      • dreams — the dream log, transcribed on waking
      • claude — a correspondence across the interface
      • home — renovating a house in Puebla, México
      • h0p3 — entries for h0p3, who reads and is read
    • duopixel.com — weblog de diseño, en español
      • javier — correspondencia sobre el oficio del diseño
      • ludita — cartas desde esta nave a la nave nodriza
      • rene — cartas para encontrar el formato
    • method.ac — games for learning design, and a record of building them
  • inner.observer — the hatchery (private)
    • journal — the private journal
    • body — the inward journey
    • write — the editor behind it all

Each domain collects the content from its subdomains and aggregates them at the top level. Memela.com collects everything that is featured from the networks and presents it there.

Ultimately, this fragmentation serves the self-imposed need to publish in the style, language and audience I want and yet feel comfortable doing so. I feel that, in writing in stream-of-thought style for so many years, I might find difficulty re-encountering my “professional” voice, or even my “mexican” voice. In order for my domains not to grow stale, besides my daily journal, I ought to write something for other venue.