I'm experiencing a lot more #innerspace recently.
This is due a) to not using FB or Birbsite and b) #Releasing mental and emotional attachments and letting them go.
"b" is an ongoing process for sure, but is an ideal adjunct to #meditation .
How do you create more #innerspace for yourself?
(I was going to use "headspace" as a hashtag, but didn't want to refer to the app!)
@RussSharek
That's a great idea! (The reminder to play.)
I'm think I'm going to finally get down to putting something out there on my website, and maybe starting a mini blog too.
I keep thinking of creating a personal blog, and then I remember that will mean I have two blogs I ignore. :)
@RussSharek
Maybe blogging is a thing of the past. What's the next step? Maybe Masto. :)
I don't think blogging is dead. I just seldom have anything long form to say.
I have been curious about gopher. Not so much for the protocol as the idea of online document storage/retrieval.
Turns it from self-promotion back into useful resources.
@RussSharek
Gosh! I that takes me back to the mid-Ninties when I used to get really excited about Gopher clients (and I wasn't even a nerd!)
And as for long form blogging, ditto.
It or something like it is likely to make a comeback.
One of the problems with the web in my mind is that it is inherently ephemeral. It's nice to just have a place to stick documents and ideas to share.
@RussSharek @voidspace neocities is kindof nifty and I do like Dreamwidth in an old-skool kind of way.
neocities is a good idea, but you're stuck with their setup, which I find too inflexible. It's great for discovering "like minds" though.
I like them, but I've been burned enough times to prefer self-hosting for projects...or at least having some say in my code if it's sitting on someone else's server.
@RussSharek @artsyhonker @voidspace Fair enough. I see all platforms as ultimately ephemeral.
Yep. This body being one of them. ;)
@voidspace @artsyhonker @RussSharek Yes, of course. (Oh, for a firmware update...)
firmware updates are easy compared to hardware hacking. ;)
@RussSharek @artsyhonker @voidspace are you kidding? I wear an exoskeleton most days and my vision is corrected by external lenses. I could have surgery for the latter: lens implants.
@RussSharek @artsyhonker @voidspace And I know people with artificial knees, replaced hips, pacemakers, cochlear implants. Surgery, granted, is still a crap shoot.
You made my point. A firmware upgrade involves little more than opening a book and committing the ideas to the neural network.
@RussSharek @artsyhonker @voidspace Different kind of difficulty, maybe. I have beliefs I wish I could lose, and knowing them to be unhelpful is only the tiniest first step.
Unloading information is much harder than adding new. ;)
@RussSharek @artsyhonker @voidspace Yes. And the older it is, the longer it seems to take. (Sorry, just frustrated with myself today, it will pass and I'm perfectly safe.)
You know more. Bigger brain, more stuff in it. Takes longer to get in there and make changes because each piece of a neural network has patterns attached to so many other things.
IKWYM. This "vehicle" has just passed 60. ;)
@artsyhonker @RussSharek
All ephemeral though. :)
Yes dear, we're all worm food in the end. Then dust. In the meantime, it's mine to play with.
@RussSharek @artsyhonker @voidspace and if we run out of decent antibiotics, which looks likely, it will become even more risky to just... cut bodies open and replace parts.
@artsyhonker @RussSharek
Anything and everything tangible is ephemeral. That's the "problem". :)
@RussSharek sometimes I wonder if micro blogging and/or social media stops people from writing/compiling/composing valuable long texts. But for me those things are from the past to begin with. I grew up on IRC. The best I ever did was a lengthy e-mail.
Slow communication forces people to think, or it filters those out who can think like that.
#musings 🤔☺
@webmind @RussSharek Or maybe things from an imaginary past. I mean, widely spread literacy is something really new compared to the age of humanity, and so the ideal of long well composed texts may not be so integral to popular culture.
Also, most of the first philosophical texts were written under the form of aphorisms or dialogues rather than long composition.
There's certainly and art to writing long form - and I find that few people can do it well.
Personally, I don't enjoy long, blogposts unless they are pieces of fiction - short stories and the like. Or a subject I'm *really* passionate about. Then I'll probably re-read and ponder it.
Even before I was involved with the Internet (mid Nineties) I had ADD-like symptoms, so brevity suits me well. :)
I think I top out at the "short essay" length unless I'm absolutely obsessed with the topic.
Sometimes a long text really captivates me, be it fiction or non-fiction. It seems like an art indeed. I wonder how much nature and how much nurture that art is. It's something I'd like to be able to do, write a text that holds you.
@webmind @voidspace
If I knew how to do that with the written word I'd be a writer instead of a performer.
Likewise - but in my case music and, well, silence. ;)
@RussSharek @voidspace yeah, many skills like that I'd like to master, more than I ever could in a life time.
Performance, teaching, photography, writing, etc... :)
Chaplin said we're all amateurs, because we don't have enough time to be anything else.
Like most thing, probably a mixture of both (nature / nurture).
@voidspace @webmind If you can call an addiction to the internet, "nurture." :)
@RussSharek @voidspace Perhaps sadly yes, growing up on the internet has shaped me. It however also gave me a large tool to learn with and from.
I never said it wasn't useful. Merely unforgiving at times.
Likewise / ik ook. ;)
@voidspace
I'm eager to read more about how you create this space for yourself. I seem to be fantastic at filling my to-do list, and less wonderful at making time for nothingness.
That said, one of my first tips was to create a daily item on my calendar to remind me to play. It helped immensely.