Category: Weblog Updates

20240928

My thoughts are starting to get a little bit more organized. Lately (the last few months or so) getting things in order has been the priority and figuring out what to take action on has been a distant second. Consider for a moment that I spent about half an hour messing around with the widgets for the sidebar on the weblog before just removing all the changes. After a little bit of consideration, it was easy enough to delete all that work because the weblog just does not need anything else beyond a basic level of presentation. Most of the views are mobile based anyway and widgets, sidebars, and other dense content display methods are not viewable as columns anyway. Mostly the mobile display methods just turn everything into a series of objects in one column. Turning everything into a manuscript style is probably the right way to go at this point. No real need exists to spend time making anything extremely customized.

Today I’m watching some college football and trying to enjoy the weekend. During the first part of the day a lot of cleaning happened. Sometimes that time can help kickstart some future writing. Stopping and doing something completely different really does sometimes improve the writing spirit and output.

Editorial note

My writing output over the last few years became over indexed on artificial intelligence and machine learning. Going down that rabbit hole was good at first and it was an effort truly focused on depth and breadth within the subject. Unfortunately, my focus lingered and instead of writing research notes about technological innovation, civil society, and the intersection of technology and modernity that pesky over indexing occurred. Now thanks to a moment of reflective practitioning I’m breaking out of that pattern and returning to what I consider a better balance of writing topics. Thank you for being along for that journey and the upcoming course correction.