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I was reading Winnie's latest post , which was a discussion of learning to enjoy classical music (I do) and personal microsites. I never miss anything she posts. I love her honesty and openness. Anyway, she said something toward the end of her post: Comparison is the thief of joy I guess. This really made me pause. Of course it was true. But how had I never heard this saying before?? So of course…
This is just so wonderful. I saw some video footage and it really made me uncomfortable because of how awkward it was.
Chupacabra's post said what I started writing last night. I just couldn't bring myself to write because it felt so dumb, but I should have just hit publish instead of closing the tab. I think I've said it here, or maybe elsewhere, but the Internet, which I'll just use as a general term that encompasses the web and other stuff, is just not where I want to spend my time. Every page that loads is…
Dynomight's pseudpocalypse post mostly holds up. What it did for me was pull attention toward the physical world, which is notable because pseudonymity is something I'd only ever framed in online terms — the two have been almost interchangeable. That equivalence has an expiration date. Sooner or later AI will be able to trace text back to whoever wrote it, and there's no obvious reason it won't.…
Gregory Andrews writes : Earth is moving beyond the range within which modern human civilisation developed. We’re entering climatic conditions that our infrastructure, ecosystems, economies and institutions were never designed to accommodate.
Justin Murphy writes : Today working on a phone or laptop is associated with upper-middle-class knowledge work. In ten years, it will be a kind of low-status, blue-collar, manual labor; you won't want to be seen doing it in public. I think this is true, but in a ‘duh’ kind of way. And hasn't this transition kind of already happened? Remember when being tethered to a device was a sign of…
As I was walking down the street towards the office, I was thinking about journaling and about this conflict between writing in a journal on a computer and writing in a journal on paper. Specifically, I was thinking about how AI can (and does) have access to one, but not the other, at least not in the same way. Part of wanting to write certain things in one or the other is about being known (by…
Every time I think about setting up a public space for people in the family to see photos or read things about travels, etc. I don't. The public web has become a strip mine in a way that creates legitimate security and privacy liabilities. The ability for someone to assemble a clear and deeply personal picture of me or my family is no longer the business of black hat criminals, but it's within…
I've been writing online for a long time, but have always done so under my own name. I can't put a finger on it, but it certainly feels like if ever there was a time to be writing anonymously or under a pseudonym, it's probably now. Does that sound paranoid? Maybe. I'm also tired of not being able to write as freely. I'm always thinking about how what I say and how I say it might reflect poorly on…