long-form is hard. i’ve all but given up blogging, having kept some sort of online journal or blog for over 8 years now. it has just gotten old and i don’t have anything interesting to say. most other people have nothing interesting to say as well, and now we have 140 characters to say it in.

my ugly last blog of sorts devolved into a sort of link junkyard. i thought the links were interesting themselves, but it was a pain to look at and you had to click through 2 different screens just to get to the embedded link excerpts. i kept the vox blog as long as i did because i was lazy about changing my workflow, and because it had a cool short-ish url. i dutifully killed it today to let the UI rest in peace.

there was a time when i used to write regularly. i don’t think it is a coincidence that my writing dropped off around the same time i actually started to use my twitter account (it spent its first year dormant out of protest against noise). we’ll just have to see how this one goes.

PS: i keep meaning to read the attention economy of social media by adrian chan, but my attention span right now is that of someone who procrastinates in many browser tabs.