Accidentally Old School

It’s surely not the most important thing right now, but the election of Donald Fucking Trump is really complicating the mid-life crisis I was having anyway.

My career – really, my second career – is at a turning point, my age is starting to assert itself, my kids are growing and having grown-up problems I can’t help them solve, and we had to go and put god damn democracy on notice?

The problem with this blog – as with every little proto-blog I’ve left scattered across the internet – is that I have every impulse to write, but I’m not sure I have anything to say.

Still – we stand at an inflection point, and a lot of us are rediscovering The Old Ways of the Web: blogs, RSS, non-algorithmic social media, newsletters and actual moments of human interaction. Maybe that will get us through.

So perhaps I’ll sprinkle in my thoughts about such things, along with fitness, jiu jitsu, tabletop roleplaying games, technology in general and working in technology more specifically. I don’t expect I’ll have any great ideas, but maybe I can be a moment of humanity in someone else’s day.