Blaggy blag blog blog

When I last wrote for this site regularly, it was before blogging had been leveraged to run entire venture capital-backed businesses via content farming. SEO didn’t exist. Twitter barely existed. YouTubers hadn’t yet started to mine the entire history of video games for content to talk about. My life was a lot simpler, and so were my interests.

Now, despite all these internet-based tools we have to stay connected to people, I feel more isolated in my interests than ever. You don’t really have conversations with people on social media unless you have mutuals who are very tuned into the same things you are, at the same time, and you have a feed focused enough to see what they’re posting and talking about. It feels like interactions online are both more adversarial on average than back then, and also more transactional, like those interactions for a lot of people are just tools to grow their online profile and clout.

There is deluge of content of all sorts being posted online in every minute of every day, by humans and by AI. To me that makes the idea of producing anything somewhat discouraging – like, why should I add to the noise? But I still must make things. I can’t not. This site will be a bit messy for a while until I figure out what I’ll do here. Anyway, the only thing I can offer that all the rest of the content online can’t is my perspective, so I’ll try to be true to that.

As I write, it’s Christmas Eve, and tomorrow I’ll be celebrating my nine-month-old’s first Christmas.

Happy holidays!