Same as it ever was.
Something about October that has me writing these. It’s the same themes this time of year: the leaves turn, the nights are longer, the kids sleep margainally better (my youngest started properly sleeping the night about 8-9mo ago, ending a seven-year streak of interrupted sleep), the community grows closer.
“Small world good. Big world bad.” At least that’s how I’ve been answering folks when they ask how things are. And that’s kind of how the dynamism plays out, too: having a software-oriented career gives me a front-row seat to a world that’s chaotic and utterly different from one day to the next–not just in velocity but directionally, a whiplash-industrial complex. And the offline world I live in is utterly natural: kids can spurt an inch overnight, but we all tend the garden, go to soccer practice, navigate the city together.
I’m staying somewhat looped in on The Protocol Institute and associated movements, World Machines project, and so on. I don’t have the bandwidth to deeply contribute just yet, but it feels proximate. I’ve a backlog of newsletter ideas to get me started and hopefully thinking more clearly for the efforts. I owe it to myself. Tangentially, I’ve been wondering about adult ADHD off and on for at least a decade and a half at this point, and it may be worth pursuit. Hasn’t been top of mind in a long time (there’s been plenty else that’s been far more pressing), and Getting Locked In isn’t appealing to me, but the delta between intentions of time investment and where I’m actually spending it have me wondering. Or I could take my own advice around environments enabling change.
Along with this update, I’ll get a fresh post out shortly to kick the tires on some new tech attached to this blog platform. I’m both trying to replace Kit.com’s platform-side RSS-to-post functionality (because it’s now associated with a $400-per-annum subscription and, as of this writing, CtrlShift has less than 50 subscribers) and integrating some blyg functionality. Should be fun.
