About 72 minutes into the latest episode of the Accidental Tech Podcast, John Siracusa mentions Rust programmers, Mac people, and rock climbers as circles of varying disjointedness in a social network of tech nerds.
I laughed, because I’ve been coding in Rust and Swift lately, and I was literally half way up a wall at the climbing gym at that moment.
I’m into a lot of different things, beyond engineering and rock climbing. Writing a succinct bio for my social media has always been a challenge, and it keeps getting worse. Eventually the stress of competing roles:
- personal or professional?
- engineer or manager?
- technologist or naturalist?
- park ranger or photographer?
…combined with self-imposed pressure to meet expectations, and sucked all the joy out of posting. I took a snapshot of a nice flower this morning and didn’t post it because…umm…what if it wasn’t on-brand? What if it wasn’t good enough? Would I bore someone?
That was the wrong way to think.
My other websites will be more focused, but this microblog is going to have it all, like a public journal should. I’ll consider it a success if at least half the posts here are interesting to any given person, but it’ll be enough that they’re all interesting to me.
Thanks for taking a look.
