weekly Go Flip Yourself

because we might be all status-seeking monkey anyway. and because “at the same time, taste games are supposed to be human nature.”

Going through this upheaval has helped me discover that it’s actually much easier to simplify your life in order to do something you love, than it is to be miserable at a job you don’t like, spending all your earnings on things to cope with that. My new life now is very local and offline, making it simpler and slower.

In my past experiences publishing, I sought public success assuming it would lead to feelings of private satisfaction. It’s only now, observing this expectation clearly for the first time, that I can see how misguided this was.

In this experiment I took the agency and time to define success. It wasn't an open-ended search for approval. The goal was to express an idea, its full context, and for them to be seen and understood. That has happened, adding up to maybe the most enjoyable publishing experience of my writing life to date. Those 250 collectors satisfied my entire Maslow’s hierarchy of writerly needs with their support.

Discussing the long arc of tech; and why optimism.

- being connected to information; then being connected to people; then machines start to own the spaces

- social media is judging all the time

- we now gravitate toward technologies which are more isiolationist