I have dabbled in writing blogs over the years but always ran into the issue of platform lock in. The idea that I would have continually be concerned with how I might move content from one platform to the next has paralyzed me from ever really investing in writing on the internet.

This is a lame excuse, I know, but for whatever reason if my data was locked away behind some ambiguous platform that I had little to no control over I was just not interested in maintaining the content. Fortunately, Astro now exists and in the paradigm of AI assisted programming, creating a site to host a blog takes roughly as much effort as typing these first few sentences did.

So here we are, at the beginning of whatever this thing ends up being.

What to Expect Here

The real reason I wanted this blog is that I have had the increasing inclination to write about both the technical and creative spaces. There has been so much going on, and it is all unravelling so fast. I have about as many thoughts and opinions as minutes in the day and I need, more so that want a surface to start to develop them. This blog is more an excuse to write as a means to figure out what I really think than anything else.

If you find it insightful or useful, wonderful. If this seems like a proverbial lunch buffet filled with an assortment of unappetizing word salad, that is equally valid. This is not a pulpit from which I am to convince anyone of anything. It is a tapestry of rough ideas that ideally will be honed over time.

What the Hell is a “Plenumonary”?

This is a phrase I made up. It takes the common philosophical phrase “plenum” which means something like “completeness”, “to be full” or conversely “the opposite of a vacuum”.

The suffix, “onary” or specially the “ary” part is often attached at the ends of English words as a way to indicate someone or something that embodies or exemplifies a thing; like “visionary”, “luminary” “missionary”.

So a plenumonary is a person who is in the pursuit of “fullness”

I have been spending more and more time thinking about the existentially disorientating questions that arise when you ponder too much on topics like the societal impact of AI and what makes anything specifically worth doing. As tools continue to make it easier to produce almost anything that you can conceive, the question of what is worth producing and why would you want to produce rests at the front of my mind.

All About the Process

I do not think you can write you way to a sense of clarity around big existential ideas. Instead, I believe you have to get your hands dirty so to speak, and do a lot of what you are trying to discern some wisdom around. In my case, I think this means making a lot of things. It means trying stuff that I am interested and will definitely suck at. It means producing stuff no one asked for and even fewer people want. It means producing stuff that is essentially worthless crap, knowingly and eagerly.

I have always had way more ideas than time and ability to execute against. What I want to explore now is if any of this stuff is what I should be doing more of and if any of it inches me closed to a place of deeper meaning.

If any of this is useful for anyone else (outside the utility of any given project) it is going to be the journey of how I got there and none of the specific things I did that got me there.