Category: Life

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I’ve recently been inspired by the Indie Web. It is a movement where individuals are creating their own web pages away from traditional social media. It is a reconnection with the old days of Internet. Many of them look like something from back then too. And it’s awesome!

One would think this blog was inspired by that in the first place. Truth be told, I hadn’t dug that far into the rabbit hole at that point. I was trying to get away from X and Instagram, and I stumbled onto Mastodon, a social media platform on the Fediverse.

I didn’t like the vibe for some reason. The idea of communities being able to Defederate each other and police content/users they don’t agree with just feels like an even more unhinged version of Facebook.

I landed on my own personal blog but wasn’t sure what to do with it. At first I was trying to be all minimal and sleek. I thought the blog would be more like a log for any and all things I wanted to save or comment on. It still IS that, but I want more of ME in it.

So now I’m working on decor.

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I’ve been deep diving into the topic of digital minimalism. For me, it has been the re-acquaintance with technology in a healthier more structured way.

This feeling started when I switched to Linux. Having total control of my computer and it just doing what I want felt nostalgic. I never realize how much Windows fought tooth and nail against the user to protect itself.

The total control of my PC led me to consider my interaction with social media so I switched to following RSS feeds of websites I wanted to see.

I realized through some sort of withdrawal reaction my phone became a bigger distraction for me. Short form content is like crack for me.

Instagram reels were my worst. I deleted the app altogether only to find myself on X’s version of shorts. Hell I even started watching them on Facebook.

Switching my phone to Linux is something I considered, but I have enough problems still on my desktop I don’t want to risk it. So for the moment I installed a minimalist open source launcher OLauncher.

So far all these changes have felt great and I’ve had the feeling of more control and purpose of my time. I’m continuing this trend with a revamp of my entire file system to the PARA method developed by Tiago Forte.

All of this is really to say what I’ve been up to last few weeks.

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On December 21st, my wife and I celebrated the Winter Solstice with her sister’s family.

It is something small we started last year. We went out to the most wooded part of our land, made a campfire, cooked food, and wrote down some resolutions to toss in the fire.

There is a un-explainable intimacy to writing out a wish for yourself and watching it burn. I feel it carries more weight somehow.