Why am I starting a blog in 2024? The truest, most encompassing answer is that I’m satisfying an urge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve spent years posting on social media sites to which I feel no lasting allegiance, over which I have no control, creating content that isn’t exactly mine. At the same time, I’m becoming sort of a tech hippie<\/a>, with a growing desire to have more ownership over the tools I use and the data they generate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The blog is a natural outlet for those two feelings, a place to shape my thoughts on a site that is fully my own. While I have a couple of independent publications already in Cord Cutter Weekly<\/a> and Advisorator<\/a>, they both revolve around somewhat rigid weekly newsletter formats, and neither are conducive to veering off topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are other motives as well:<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m aware that announcing a blog and then letting it languish is as storied a tradition as blogging itself. But I’ve also tried to make the process as frictionless as possible by publishing directly to WordPress via Obsidian, which I can easily do from any device. I’ll also be auto-sharing new posts on social media (Mastodon and Bluesky for now), so there’s added incentive to write in here instead of just out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ll look at RSS support next. Also: Blogroll?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n