I have a growing backlog of Cate Hall posts to read through over at Useful Fictions. Every time I open a post from her, I expect it to be somehow not as good as the last one I read—yet it consistently is. This recent post In praise of quitting is no exception.

Try it. Go around your day, narrating all of your choices to yourself. With everything you do, consciously say, in your head: “I am choosing to do this, because it’s the best course of action according to all the information I have available.” See if it feels true.

I’ve been enjoying reading Cate Hall’s Useful Fictions blog recently. Check it out.

I know I am only a few days into my micro.blog journey but the whole thing—from the tools to the community—feels very retro in the best possible ways. There are certainly things I have become accustomed to on other platforms—embeds/unfurling chief among them—but if I can relax and understand that many of those things don’t matter, I can find a lot to like here.

There is such a great community. Feels so insular and elite but in the best possible ways—like the early web did. Not like we are better than anyone, but that we found this secret place that is filled cool stuff. Like we are part of a community of people who care about the same core stuff but aren’t at all homogenous—we’re all bringing something to the table.

Combine this with the recent spirit of building that some AI tools have resurfaced in me, and I feel like I’m in a new renascence on the web. Excited.

Since, this year (and maybe the next 4), I cannot really stomach looking outward onto the world, to my nation, sometimes even to my community, I am placing my attention upon my immediate surroundings. I’ll be undertaking (and sharing) some large and small projects around the house (in a category, I sorta tongue-in-cheek refer to as homesteading) as well as doing some hiking, reading, and undertaking some creative endeavors with AI and technology. I’ll outline each of these more thoroughly in future posts. Looking forward to it.