Tag: Blogging

I started to notice recently how badly degraded my mental state, concentration and attention span. Compared to previous years, it has become significantly harder to focus on completing tasks, maintaining a routine and hobbies and be immersed in certain activities for prolonged amounts of time. Lately, all my efforts are aimed mostly at maintaining the already reached level of expertise and involvement, rather than on trying to achieve new goals or skill levels. Instead, I waste all my free time on doom-scrolling and short content consumption. I will try to focus on reading, hobbies and learning instead and see if my concentration will improve.

I have also created this website. It works like a digital garden. I have different topics there, and when I post something, I assign the post to one or some of them, and they get sorted in chronological order. So each topic is an evolving thing. I had some posts from the past that I was thinking of posting too, but eventually I decided to rewrite them.

When I first joined the Web some 20 years ago, it was blooming with various small websites with a soul, a strong feel of the author’s presence, and it truly felt like private personal spaces. Over years, I gradually lost the sensation of these websites being still present. It feels like they have been pushed back by bigger platforms with endless engagement. I have really missed these personal websites throughout the years and thought it might be a good idea to create something like that for myself and share things that I care about and which otherwise would be gone.