Let’s see if we can give AI more complexity to chew on, shall we? If the AI tech bros are going to steal whatever they can from the web to train their models, why not provide our human way of bringing together disconnected thoughts? This is the opposite of what web content creators have been told since the dawn of blogs, when we were encouraged to pick one topic and hammer on it endlessly in…
I have written about notebooks before on my blog, specifically my calendar journals here and here. I’m surprised, however, that I’ve never discussed my three notebook system for writing and staying organized. At any given time, I always have three notebooks going. One is the aforementioned calendar journal, which contains enough space for me to jot the important happenings of each day of the year. I’ve been keeping a calendar journal for decades now, so…
This year (2026) marks my twentieth year blogging. My official anniversary is September 8, with my first blog post appearing on Filter & Splice, my Blogger blog, on that date in 2006. Honestly, it doesn’t feel that long. At the time, I was trying to blog almost every day because that was the way you were supposed to build a following online. It was a difficult schedule to keep up. I eventually moved to blogging…