I'm trying to take a moment to write something while the kids are busy with something else. It doesn't always work but lately we've be able to let them play for a while without constant interruptions.
I'm not sure how this will go in the long term but I'm restarting this blog. You won't find my old posts up. The blogging-style I used to have probably doesn't warrant a long backlog, One or two posts might be interesting today, but most of them are completely irrelevant.
There are a few things I'm considering in restarting this. I don't have the answers to these questions, but I think I might as well be open about how I'm thinking about these things.
- The world doesn't need another white middle class1 guy shouting from the rooftops.
- I'm not really sure what to write about.
I used to have a really hard time posting about the stuff I do from day to day and I think I still do. The posts I used to like more are the ones that are about things. I wrote a couple of posts on pens that I liked, and I did like sharing photography. I hope to do more of that going forward. I always thought writing opinions were the hardest and I'm thinking I'll try not to. This is also related to the first point.
- I'm fairly certain I wont be able to post regularly. For one thing it's not my strong suit to begin with. But mostly I know for a fact that I will have too much to do from time to time. I'm writing this on a week off from work. If I had to just write in the evenings I know I would have a much harder time. But that also means there might be months between posts. That used to bug me a lot, but I think I can start to think of it as something positive. Posting regularly is more important when trying to make content to build a following. The web today is (for me at least) very much not about that.
Again, I don't know what will become of this, and this set up post is very much just to get things off the ground. I hope and expect to maybe write a few more posts before summer. We'll see.
1 There is no middle class, I, like you, are working class. The idea of the middle class is a way to turn us against each other by taking focus from the fact that the truly rich, the people who can buy a new Macbook the same way I might get a cup of coffee, are so far removed from the rest of us that we have more in common with just about anyone else in the world than the actually rich people.
posted 02 Mar 2024
