i do not care about people being mad at me on twitter. it's silly https://twitter.com/ren9091/status/1308964359935320064

i should write it up eventually but in short my twitter manifesto is: this is a place for links and jokes; you share the links and you supply lighthearted commentary, because the format is totally antithetical to depth and nuance. this website is a context shredder, too

it has a lot of fun and positive uses; you can meet people here, ask questions and get a lot of input, follow developing news, etc. but it's neither possible nor preferable, in my view, to vest it with emotional significance, or to attempt to develop a body of thought here

so what you see on my feed is the surface of my mind: ephemera, news, images from my day, things i'm wondering about, fleeting thoughts and feelings. lots of ordinary life, because ordinary life is ubiquitous. but oftentimes i suspect people think those are my /only/ thoughts.

but they're not; they're just the superficial things that pass through a person's thoughts in a given day. i think the number one reason i take twitter with a massive grain of salt is that it has this capacity to make people one-dimensional, static and uncomplicated

of course, people are multi-dimensional, subject to change, and exquisitely complicated. that's what i love about my job -- the opportunity to study the vast, complex circuitry of people's inner lives. and this website just strips that away. so that's why i kinda blow it off tbh

so aside from news, links to writing, etc, what i put here is stuff that makes me happy, which i hope will also make you feel happy, or at least amused. and the things that make me happy are my kids, jokes, my cooking, holidays, etc. and i think that's the best i can do here.