A Fresh Start

This is my first blog post ever.

I’m definitely making this a bigger deal than it is, but for someone who grew up in a generation that equates the web with walled gardens like Meta’s platforms, it is not a small deal either. While we did have to practice writing blog posts in English class, it never felt “real”.

Now that I had begun using Ulysses as my second brain and note-taking app, the last barriers to my wish for creating my own blog fell. Creating a blog is the whole reason I even bought my domain.

Okay, to be frank, it wasn’t the entire reason for my domain. I also wanted to have a stable email address that would stay with me, regardless of what email hosting service I used. I wanted to create a blog to have an outlet and testing ground for my writing capabilities, in addition to having an easily linkable write-up I could send people on a topic.

Not only that, but I wanted to make the blog be about my digital minimalism and privacy journey while also highlighting ways of balancing the will of self with the tides of society, whether be it on matters of privacy, personal autonomy or economic freedom. Highlighting this intersectionality is something rather rare and would be a good way of contributing to the conversation surrounding these topics. The occasional book review — if apt to the essay/write-up — would be fine as well.

So for my blog, I’ll be focusing on these specific topics:

• digital privacy & autonomy
• digital minimalism
• effects of digitalization on my portion of society (age group)
• Book reviews when relevant to the aforementioned topics.

Now with my Digital Declutter project, I will be posting frequent updates detailing my experience withdrawing from social media and other non-essential technologies, however, once that’s over, I’ll turn the publishing down a notch to a biweekly cycle.

I hope I don’t quit writing before a single person gets to read this!

Edit: Actually, this blog will be about whichever thing I deem worth sharing.