For at least the last handful of years, just following “Lose thirty pounds” and “Read more,” some version of more actively posting things on this site has appeared in my list of New Year’s resolutions.
I’m not sure why it has been so difficult to get started.
I haven’t lost a lot of weight yet, but I’ve been out walking a couple of miles nearly everyday since the beginning of January. This wasn’t something I was doing before. I’ve also already read more books in 2022 than I read in all of 2021. I’m not sure why the sudden change of momentum, but for whatever reason, I seem to have it.
Being more active here is the next item on the list. Honestly, as I am sitting here writing this, it is giving me joy to get past the start.
As a little bit of an aside, I think part of my momentum might be because I didn’t actually write resolutions this year. I wrote intentions. Intentions were one of the topics discussed by Ryder Carroll, who created the Bullet Journal, during a webinar that he hosted at the beginning of the year.
I think part of the magic of intentions is that they feel more forgiving than resolutions. Framing my 2022 aspirations as intentions rather than resolutions has given me space to be less than perfect, and I think this space has allowed me to build some momentum.
Focusing back on this site, I’ve had a personal website since July of 2000. It was during that same month that I joined the newly created IBM Cambridge Web Design Studio.
I started the site originally as a way to learn about coding, but also because I wanted to be a part of all of the wonderfulness that was happening at the time — the sharing, the thinking, the creating, and the connecting.
Not that my opinion ultimately matters, but I don’t think that our Web Renaissance is nearly over. For all of the craziness (and some truly terrible things) that have come with it, I am still optimistic and excited about how the Internet will make the world a better place. My excitement brings me joy and makes me still want to participate and be a part.
As the first post in a very long while, this is longer and maybe more personal than I was thinking it would be. That’s okay. I am happy to post it.
My vision is that much of what gets posted here, at least in the near term, will be links to things that I find interesting and then maybe once in a blue moon something more reflective such as this.