Towards the tail end of the year, I had an awakening of sorts when it came to digital spaces. After Elon’s takeover of Twitter, I realised that I’ve been producing content for platforms I don’t own – free. And that despite all that free labour, my reward is to be data mined and to have access to people restricted. I said enough and did a series of things:

• I quit Twitter.
• Learned how to use Astro, a static website generator, and created Front Matter, a new website where I will write about work things.
• Started migrating my content from Squarespace to this wordpress.com by painstakingly copying one post at a time. It’s a long story. Will eventually go on a paid plan.
• Turning my “personal brand” website into a digital garden and personal blog, which is more my jam than “building a brand”.

I’m also embarking on a Depth Year – to read unfinished books, to complete writing uncompleted stories. Read two books from my very long TBR shelf: Elantris and Ugly Truth.

I continue to love my job as a technical writer.

Read what I’ve been up to in the last few months in the Now Archive.