2026: bye bye social media
I'm quitting social media for the year.
I want this year to be about depth, not breadth. Deeper work and relationships.
A big part of this is increasing my attention span so I can consume and create great works. Twitter, Farcaster and the likes are about short form, ephemeral content, I want the opposite: longer, durable content that a human put effort in to writing.
I don't want to know about "the current thing" for a while. Minnesota daycare fraud is a non-actionable Christmas activity, for example. And to be fair, I never wanted to know. Despite my effort keeping a tight follow list, training and nudging the algorithm, either a new PM gets hired or I have moments of weakness that mess it all up.
The reality is I'm a proper adult with real, concrete interests, I want to read about them. I want my stated preferences, not the revealed ones. My stated preferences are what I want to be, who I want to surround myself with, its my aspirational self in many ways. The revealed ones, the things I engage with, tend to be more self destructive.
So how will I get content I want? RSS. I'll spend this year building up sources of content from folks I really like, favoring longer form, less frequent content sources, like blogs.
I'm aware I'll miss some things this way. That I'll sacrifice a bit of discovery and timeliness, that I may open my own curated feed and be bored, but I'm cool with it. Boredom is preferable to the infinite stream. I want the finite, scarce stream.
Of course I still want to write things and quips and share them so I made this little blog. It's minimal and a collection of markdown files I'll write from Obsidian. I'm excited to have a web site again and take part of a growing movement to revive them.
As for Farcaster and Twitter, I'll likely setup auto posting when I write something new but the accounts will be read-only, only a friend will know the password.
That's all for now. See you on the slow web.
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