Focus on the breath. I enjoy the realisation that comes from picking up a new skill. But I find mapping it out as a visible and shareable mental model much more difficult. I've thought about the below so much though at this point that I have greater conviction to publish it here: I've been meditating for a few years now and one of the comforts that implementing said activity into my daily being has given me is the ability to summon calm in chaos. Sometimes that chaos would come from inner tu...

Writing by itself is hard, let alone writing well. Observing my own behaviours as a beginner, I've noted four challenges to writing: The first is selecting a medium with which to write, be it paper or a blogging platform. Without a means to record the ideas being conveyed, one is constrained to communicating physiologically in the moment (e.g. vocalising, signing, dancing). Thus, the opportunity for obtaining the aspirational quality of 'permanence' inherent to the medium of writing is drastic...

Tonight, I open this blog with a celebration of great victory for myself... My Untangling from Google! I've reached the high mantle of no longer paying Google for cloud storage. They lured me in a few years ago when my entire ecosystem was Google-oriented... before I learned about better privacy practices. I needed space for email, drive and photos which were all being exploited for Google's advertising dollars. I've moved onto Proton since for the equivalents as they've arisen. And so t...