On blogging.

As many of you may have noticed, I'm not exactly big on social media posting.  The idea that my posts should have infinite rules imposed upon them, only to be stymied in visibility, shortened, cropped weirdly, pushed into silly little trends... it all seems silly, when I could be creating doing actual work, which I actually enjoy, for my actual sites.  Consequently, I usually rely on the quality of my work to speak for itself, letting marketing slide to the wayside.

On top of that, experience and observation have shown me (and many of you!) that the more someone posts their life online, the more miserable of a person they tend to be- they're usually compensating for something, and are oh-so-desperate for you to please, please, please believe them.  "My relationship is functional!  I'm rich!  I'm beautiful!" while their life offline tells a distinctly different story.  They spend ten minutes getting the correct angle and lighting for their dinner, as it slowly grows cold.  They fail to enjoy the pleasures sitting before them, all to prove to an ephemeral and mostly-uncaring audience that they are something that they're not, because if just one person believes that lie, maybe it'll finally become real.

As this naturally implies, I've been too caught up in enjoying my life to waste my precious time obsessively documenting it.  Unfortunately, this makes one important thing difficult: connecting with all of you.  I don't want to clog up my "spicy" sites with my more mundane vacation activities, etc., but part of me misses the simplicity of being able to see what all of my scene friends are up to in long-form, minus the algorithm and censorship.  I miss seeing my cohorts as more than simply content, and I miss seeing how their brains tick, minus the constraints of platforms and pure marketing.  I can't help but think I'm not the only one who feels this way.

Hence, this blog.  Bookmark it.  Check it regularly.  There's much more to come.