Hello World!
It might be my quarter-life crisis kicking in, but lately I've been more and more attracted to analog stuff and to things “like they used to be”. To give a bit of context, I grew up before the omnipresence of technology and saw with my own eyes the development and popularisation of the internet. I fell in love with it! The feeling of having a portal to the world was a concept that gave me the purest form of joy. It's no coincidence that until this day, my job is to build websites.
I remember having a list of blogs that I used to follow and read religiously. Each of them used to have their own design, language (both as in idiom and in way of talking) and vibe. Content was everywhere (and nowhere) and discovering good stuff was a a form of art on its own.
Soon enough SEO arrived and it killed authenticity. As a side effect, SEO also killed blogging as a platform. Mass social networks got popular and they now concentrate all the content. To be honest, content barely matters. The form is important, and so is the velocity. Content needs to be fast, instant, but also forgettable. Everything is ephemeral and generic. Engagement is king.
With all this situation [and feeling a bit nostalgic if you ask me], during my last year review I decided to go to in the opposite direction: create a small blog with the sole purpose of writing about stuff I find interesting: snowboarding, music, art, healthy lifestyle, tech, travel, futurism and probably something else. Without engagement and “likes”, the idea is to write when I feel like about what I feel like it. This is kind of a useless/lame attempt to bring back something I loved about the web 1.0.
The way I see it, this will be a place to organize the enormous amount of thoughts I have about so many different topics. For this reason, I do not expect original insights. The posts will be more like a compilation of things I've seen around, with my perspective added to it. As I read somewhere sometime ago: I write not to teach, but to learn what I already know.
Let's see how long I stick around.