Continuing the theme of yesterday’s post – writing, just do it – is this wonderful video from Field Notes featuring writing’s elusive partner, inspiration.
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On the train,
flying north.
A pocket full of electronic books,
a window full of misty countryside.
The window wins.
I took a break from Twitter when Musk took over and quickly laid off thousands of staff via email.
I didn’t think that even he could do so much damage so quickly.
I was one of the very early users of Twitter as it took off in the web design community.
I’ve made friends through Twitter that have become friends IRL.
Twitter was key to early success of Milton Keynes Geek Night, with our Twitter friends becoming a little black book of fabulous speakers.
I’ve watched as many of those friends have ebbed away from Twitter, some to other platforms and some away from social media completely.
It was a quieter place, but it was a place that still held a special place in my heart.
Which is why seeing it brought to its knees by Elon Musk has been difficult to watch.
Yes it’s just a website, but it’s more than that, it’s more than just the code and the pixels it’s a worldwide community I loved being part of.
I hope that if or when Musk finally breaks Twitter somebody better buys that code and brings back the community.
Last weekend I was about to post some photos from a frosty forest walk onto Instagram and paused as I was pondering the best tags to add to ‘drive engagement’.
I remembered a commitment I’d made to myself over Christmas – to consume mindfully, to create more and to own the content I create. I stopped uploading the pictures and removed Instagram from my phone once again.
I’ve often spoken about missing the heyday of personal blogs, before social media became peoples primary outlet online. I’ve been meaning to dust of this blog for months and was genuinely surprised to see my last post was published 9 months ago.
I’ve been inspired to do so but what feels like a mini blogging renaissance amongst my friends with veritable flood of posts from Al, Andrew and Christian.
I’m looking forward to once again sharing thoughts, photos and ‘found things’ via my personal site. Good to see you again.
We trained hard but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised.
I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.
— Petronius Arbiter