I know that this whole blogging and writing online thing is working because ideas I posted weeks/months/years ago are coming back into focus. In the first case, The Algorithm provided me with a crucial bit of info on an idle puzzle. In the second, I revisited some of my own writing and found my ideas were a little different a year onwards. 📈

Turns out, Ol’ Dirty Bastard was on “Ghetto Superstar” because he wandered into the wrong studio and things went from there.

I don’t need to walk miles per day or hermit-up in a cabin to exist in the moment, away from algorithm feeds and social networks. Your mileage (no pun intended) may vary.

Writing in Waste Book-esque short aphorisms has intensified. On path dependence, “ghost engineers”, impactful work, and tinkering. Yay or nay, esteemed readers?