> Something Better
>
> A Poem
Beautiful!
> To My Readers
>
> If you like what I write, then please subscribe
>
> If you don't know what I write, you can find out.
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> Thank you very much.
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Done.
> I come back to a point Jon Udell expressed – context
> is a service that we can provide others. Because on the
> base level, highlighting and bookmarking is beneficial
> to you. But then, once they're on the web, they become
> potentially beneficial for others – all from making your
> reading content-addressable.
<entropy winks, grins>
> Money, of course. I always stress about it when I have
> large amounts of it going out the door. I am always
> transparent on this blog, and I gotta say – I never seem
> to have enough money to do the things I want/need to do.
Are the wants/needs editable?
> This is more or less me talking/writing to myself and
> warrants no feedback, I just wanted to put into text the
> way I feel about things. Feeling good :)
Textual gyrations on public dance floors have the look and feel of invitations to do-si-do.
> It’s me. Standing there. Living a life of moments and
> experiences lets me dawdle over a coffee and see the
> excruciating glory in mundane places. Now I head back to
> beautiful, wondrous and often incredible Vietnam for a
> year. I’ll find more mundane and trivial and share them
> as I ought. You’re invited to armchair the voyage. Just
> be patient. I move at my pace. Maybe you will see something
> new in the little. I still do.
<inspects his armchair's seatbelt>
Ready!
> From Numerous e-mails. All marketing. Personal e-mail
> newsletters I will remain subbed to. Also went through
> and did a security check on Google. As I “need”
> Google. Even though I do not. I just went through multiple
> pages and steps just to pause my YT history because I
> didn’t want to have a bunch of triggering/offensive shit
> on my YouTube timeline anymore.
I'm very much interested in becoming Google-free. Voluntary disuse of Youtube has already done me lots of mental good for avoiding the inner anticipating-advertising cringe. I just need to figure out how to repurpose my two Chromebooks, and I'll be deleting the Google account.
Disabling javascript for all but a few seemingly vital domains has also lightened my disposition significantly, simply for knowing others aren't running their invasive, attention-torpedoing crud on my machine.
> I won't be running away, of course. I still like write.as,
> still love the idea of minimalism as a feature and openness
> as a perk (as long as the latter gets better and remains
> a core tenet). But I am less and less driven to quickly
> write up a quick thing or three on my tablet or laptop
> and push it out.
The collective impact read.write.as posts favoring minimalism has me suddenly remembering John Lennon's “God”, which includes a formidable list of things he no longer believe[sd] in... going on to sing “the dream is over” several times – which mind is currently mapping to the nightmare of bright-shiny-objects-substitutes-for-solid-content web offerings.