I take walks often. It’s how I process, how I generate new ideas, and how I shed a bad mood. I’d say that the simple act of walking is the most vital pillar in my self care stack.
Running a close second, however, is writing.
When it comes to thinking something through, planning anything or expressing my feelings – writing is the best tool I have. So, in the very earliest days of the Internet, I was all over any software or service that involved written communication in some way. Geocities and other early blogging platforms, Livejournal, all of the text focused social networks, text-based BBS communities, in all these spots I felt at home.
At some point, writing became about making money. My writing became “content” meant to rank me in the search engines, even if I didn’t have a real reason to care about that. It’s ingrained in me as a contemporary small business owner and a person who has had to hustle for most of my life. But, this ended up killing the very reason I was writing in the first place – to process, to learn more, to understand, and to share all of that with others.
So, despite the fact that I have other websites where the focus of my writing is professional, even commercial, here I give myself a break from all of that. Here I am writing for myself, for my own purposes. And if you find something useful in it, all the better.
Here’s a short, incomplete list of the things I’m likely to write about here:
- Chinese medicine including Classical Chinese medicine, Chinese herbs, Dong style acupuncture and pulse diagnosis
- Chinese language & culture, especially of the Han / pre-Han
- Study techniques, memory & pedagogy
- Queer theory, reflections on gender & sexuality
- Neurodivergence, autism, ADHD and the paradigms that help (or hurt) our understanding of these
- Nature, animals, plants, herbs, permaculture
- Philosophy as a discipline, particularly epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of medicine and novel environmental philosophies such as Deep Ecology
- Wise use of technology, especially the use of digital technologies in organizational development
- Business, especially small business, ethical business, ethical employment
- Marketing in all its many permutations
Let’s see where this goes.