On daily blogging
E.B. White’s amazing writing nook
I left Twitter after Elon Musk's takeover, which was a total shitshow.
It was the cringey Dad-joke moment Musk where I felt it all jumped the shark.
The truth is, I've been reevaluating my relationship with social media long before Musk bought Twitter.
I’ve been nostalgic for the early days of blogging. When we didn't know what SEO was or what we should do for the algorithm.
The first website I built was an Austin Powers fansite / personal blog when I was 14. I created animated gifs of Austin Powers for some reason, and made almost daily journal entries. This was before there dedicated blogging platforms, so I did this all by hand via HTML.
Later, I moved on to Xanga, then Livejournal, then Tumblr, before settling on Wordpress and Squarespace.
Ahhh, the good old days
It was so pure and fun back then.
I decided to take a few pages from Austin Kleon and do a 30-day challenge to blog daily. (For my reward I’ll get myself a nice long massage.)
It's funny how I used to look forward to getting home so I could fire up Livejournal and just write. I wrote about anything and everything. While I got a nice shot of endorphins when a someone would comment, that was never the goal. I seemed to write and put things out into the ether just to put it out there.
To leave a trace of me in the universe.
I want more of that.
