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old blogger, new tricks
I’ve been writing a lot lately, and as I work to tweak and promote and refine everything that I’ve written I’ve been locked in this reality of the internet in its current state: that blogs are all but dead media. I was going through my bookmarks the other day and it was almost depressing how…
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twenty-five
I’m gonna go on about this all day and probably longer, but today—as I write these words and post them on April 20, 2026—is my blogiversary. On April 20, 2021, I was sitting in a hot little studio apartment in mainland Vancouver having just moved out there for work and I decided to write an…
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ask me again next year
Compared to this time last year are you happier or sadder? At the end of this month it will have been exactly two and a half years since I left that stable job and set out on an adventure of random and self employment. Two. And a half. Years. It was a story of burnout…
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meta (not) monday and other stuff
Starting with an aside, I’ll just note that it drove me nuts when the company that makes and runs that dystopian social network—you know the one—decided to call itself meta. Many wager that they stole the term from Neal Stephenson’s classic novel Snow Crash which itself was a fiction-shaped social commentary on the explosive expansion…
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half life
This is not a game. I did the math. I was exactly half the age I am today when I wrote my first blog post. Maybe that’s nothing. Maybe that’s everything. I’m not sure I’m equipped to tell you either way. Take my age today, divide by two and that many years, months, days ago…