Hey There, Hot Stuff

Well hello there! Gosh, it’s been so long, hasn’t it? Not since… mumble mumble but anyway it’s so good to see you! I missed you, babe. I missed what we had together.

I missed having a place to share long-form thoughts with the public at large so that I could discuss them at length in other places with my communities and interesting strangers, on a platform I control so I know it’ll stick around. It was magical. Because you’re magical.

So what have I been up to in this last little… time? That we’ve had? Well I’ve learned a whole lot about epidemiology, I’ve done some time embedded in a team at Amazon Studios learning way more than I ever expected to about Alexa, VR, and how stuff at Amazon works, I’ve been chiseling away at a new novel, and I’ve… you know, survived.

Mostly that last bit. I feel like I’ve made it through something, and this is the new now, and it’s time to stop waiting for some after time because now is all we ever get, anyway.

I’ve got a lot I’ve been thinking about lately, and some of it is about life and culture and philosophy, some of it is about writing, some of it is about how super wild this place is we’re living right now, like, wow the future is really not what it was marketed as, right?

To that end I’m probably going to do a redesign real soon, get America Inc. into the store and suchlike, in general try to kick the dust off of this place and see what I find underneath. I am aware that nobody reads blogs anymore since the death of Google Reader, that if I were smart and canny I’d be starting a Substack or posting on Medium, but honestly I… I don’t want to. I want something that’s all mine.

Maybe I’ll talk about that at some point, too.

Anyway, I’ve gotta run, but honestly it is SO good to see you, so good, I sure hope you’re doing great, I love you to bits, and let’s not be strangers, ‘k?