Working Title For Work In Progress
Because I rarely finish what I start when it comes to these things, here is an image of a companion website to a book that is in it's planning stages. No working title, just a rough outline. This website design…
THE WRITTEN RECORD
Tag: Writing
The Next Twenty-Five
Twenty-six years online. Everything before today has been archived where it belongs. This is a new page and a new era. The past is preserved. The future starts here. I’m rebuilding with intent and curiosity.
News
Hi! In case you are new around here, I am Chris. If you are new around here, here is something About Me and why you should read my newsletter. In this letter, I share what’s on my mind, my latest…
Authentic Intelligence
I’d like to put it out there to the World Wide Web right now- if I ever use artificial intelligence to write this website for me, I'll shut it down first. But, until the damn thing grows arms, breasts and…
Autodiadactism
That reads as impressive, no? All that to say, I enjoy reading, studying and figuring things out on my own, for my own enrichment. Over the years I am slowly fine-tuning the process. I have built my own personal knowledge…
Just For The Hell Of It
I’ve been thinking a lot about what I do, what I want to do and understanding my motivations. Not sure if this is because I just turned 50 and may be having some kind of crisis. Doesn't feel like it.…
Digital vs Analog
02-25-2023 Analog vs Digital I observed my Royal Scrittore typewriter collecting dust this morn g moring and thought I would give it a go. Two sentences in and my fingers hurt. Compare this tothe keyboard on my MacBook Pro where…
iPhonetography
Coming to your e-reader in the Spring of 2023
Ghosted
I have had a need to simplify my websites and the expenses that come with them. That changed today. A year ago I transferred this website to a self-hosted instance instead, for simplicity and ease of use but I gave…
Publishing On The Go
My website has being going for over twenty years. In that time, technology has transformed my life and the way I write has gone through some pretty major shifts. What was first typed into a frustratingly slow WordPress installation can…
This Week
It’s been about a solid week since re-using iA Writer exclusively, instead of Ulysses and I’m thrilled to be back. I’ve never stuck with iA Writer except for editing Markdown files but now I am using it exclusively to publish…
On Contentment
Lately I’ve been playing ping-pong in my brain about changing platforms. I set myself up on a 14-day trial to host this site on another server and within 14 minutes decided it was too much of a struggle. I’ve spent…
Personal Publishing Principles
When’s the last time you went to an actual website to read a real article written by a human, without being slapped in the face by pop-ups, cookie warnings, ads, and lead-generating magnets? It’s past time to get back to…
The Internet Is Broken
Anyone else noticed that today’s WWW is insufferable? I don’t specifically know when it turned, or why most users became jerks, but I’ll go ahead and guess about 2010. Making money off of content became more important than the content…
Analog Notes
Following up on a previous post, I have too many unused paper journal notebooks in the form of Field Notes©. I need to frequently remind myself to use them, and this post intends to do just that. During the day,…