Category: writing & communicating

  • keyboard life

    keyboard life

    I have developed a lot of little productivity hacks for myself in the past couple years. It’s odd, actually. Realizing that. Odd. For the first year of my career break I wrote about it all the time. The career break I mean. I was always writing about it. I was slightly obsessed with working through

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  • monster blue fame

    monster blue fame

    Despite my protests about the fluxable nature of social media, I have been posting on Bluesky. That site, for now, seems like the developers have set out to build the anti-twitter twitter, and that appeals to me enough to participate. Again, just for now. But for now maybe creeping closer to and end because this

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  • undeleted

    undeleted

    To be fair, I didn’t actually read the article. In these days of click-bait headlines it is equally likely that any given bit of tripe posted in traditional media is some too-clever journalist writing a bit of sarcastic parody humor prefixed by an all-too-clever title to draw in the crowds who are almost certainly looking

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  • social games

    social games

    I spent nearly a decade feeding the massive social media networks like Facebook and Instagram with my creative output. I could tell you that I learned some skills in social media engagement, but that would be a bit of an exaggeration because an invisible algorithm did most of the work. I could tell you that

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  • works of wandering

    works of wandering

    As of two o’clock in the afternoon I have logged nearly seventeen thousand steps. Walking. Wandering. Vaguely destinationed towards places where I could sit and write after walking and reading and trying not to trip and fall flat on my face. I’ll be the first to admit that I had no real plan about what

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