I have let this site languish for several years since a short-lived pandemic-inspired attempt to pivot to video, which, let’s be honest, was the kind of hilarious decision we all made at least one of in the year 2020. (That’s not to say I’ll never make a video again, because I find video editing meditative; it’s just pretty time consuming to do in service of a hobby.)

HOWEVER, since 2020 I have: 1) become unemployed, 2) worked freelance for the first time, 3) changed careers (!), 4) finished a return to grad school (!!), and now, 5) find myself in a job that will involve even MORE reading and writing than my previous discipline. As such, regular writing should probably re-enter my weekly routine.

For that reason, as well as the ever-present belief that the original idea for this website / blog remains a good one, I am going to return to weekly posting this summer. It will be useful writing practice for me, give a home to all the links I’d love to share after reading great articles I stumble across, allow space for book/movie reviews that deserve more than a tweet-length reaction on Letterboxd, and refresh the content for my favorite tool, the “Pick One Randomly” button at the top of the page.

Perhaps, in time, a return to regular writing will justify a new pivot to Substack or some other newsletter format, a recent trend which I am now totally into. Blogs are back, baby, except now they’re email. The Good Web of the early aughts is making its return in the oldest format on the internet, and I want in. Maybe. Eventually.

Anyway, more posts soon.

Inspired by this lovely little visual essay (only partially screen-capped above) about the need to cool down social media, and maybe make it harder to instantly reach millions of people any time you want, a simple tangent:

Should there be limits on how easy it is to “go viral” or have your message spread globally in seconds?

Do we really need that ability? If so, why?

If not, what’s a fair but useful way to limit that power without old-fashioned corporate gatekeeping?