Why You Doing This?

I’m still here, and I’m still going back to the basics / Real hip-hop in the matrix - Nas, Stillmatic

Once upon a time a long, long time ago I had a little corner of the internet where I would post my random thoughts, musings, inspirations and ideas, and low and behold people actually kinda fucked with me.

This was in a time before Facebook, twitter or tumblr. The wayback machine can attest to such an existence. A time when most people in our community had little idea of what a blog was or why anyone would be bold enough to post anything online.

Eventually life took over and the thought of writing essays online seemed trivial. The age of twitter was upon us and I could spit the bones of my message in 255 characters or less and feel just as accomplished.

By this time I also had a lot less to say, and found myself happy enough to just share a gif that best expressed my opinion or thought on things.

In the years since; I’ve dabbled with podcasts, streaming and YouTube. I even made several attempts at posting and bringing this site back to life only to watch the “I’m back” post rot with mould as it remained the sole post on here. Eventually leading me to just want to burn it all down and start again a few years later.

Yet here I am once again, trying to satiate this itch and express why this time is different. So here it be -

I’m tired of what platforms like twitter have become. Rage baiting click farms with the lone purpose of inducing as many impressions for next to no gain.

Playing to the algo with a convoluted 🧵’s that are more annoying than a classic buzz feed article.

I miss my little uninterrupted soap box.

Writing still remains my favourite medium to convey my thoughts and locking any of this unfettered gold felt wasteful.

Will anyone actually find any of this? Let alone spend the 5 minutes to read it? Probably not. The internet is a much bigger, noisier place and I self admittedly bring nowhere near the value most these big brained alpha male sarbloh mindset types have to share. Let alone the historic street cred.

Just a dude on the internet who misses talking his shit and tired of confining that shit to any single platform.

Obviously that also means there’s zero audience since inherently blogs are dead, at least those that exist in the empty void that isn’t medium, or substack. But I miss the wild west empty void that the internet once was, and maybe just maybe I’ll say something of some relevance that will strike some old flaying memory as someone stumbles upon this and thinks, “oh ya I remember that guy.”

Lastly, it’s a hope that maybe I can share a pearl of wisdom that my kid or a kid can come across and be able to reconnect with who I was, even if just for a fleeting moment.

Or maybe I’m just bored and get off on writing word salads that impress no-one but make me smile knowing the synapses in my brain can still fire off and form a decent sentence. Either way no matter what the content I make is, it almost always starts with a few thoughts and some words, so here I am sharing those words.