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This morning I wrote about how I'd recently found out that this site does get a tiny little bit of traffic[1]. But enough traffic to make me stop and think about it for a second with some unease. A second is a bit of an understatement; I thought about it a lot.
Anyway, the point is that I don't really like people reading this stuff. It's not really meant to be read. I write it because I am exploring ideas and thinking quickly, and making it public is a way of ensuring that I don't get soft[2]. The idea of it being public is enough to make me put in just that extra bit of effort to take something that's a pile of shit into a pile of shit worth having a title and date. Maybe they'll turn into something more than that, but they haven't yet, nor do I anticipate them doing so in the future.
My opinions are just opinions. They're worth nothing, but unfortunately writing them down makes them seem like these monolithic, important things[3]. This is a problem with writing[4] more broadly.
For this reason this site doesn't have a distribution mechanism. No email list, no RSS feed. If you want to explore, you have to explore by clicking a bunch of links. No low effort search, categories, or even much of an index page. Hopefully that's enough to deter most people.
In the spirit of the classic rant[5] Why I Fucking Hate Weblogs[6], I'm going to install a disclaimer on all these pages. It reads:
This was written by someone who knows nothing. It's all just like, my opinion, man. I cannot know anything about the world; this writing is my flailing around and languishing in that fact. You should have something much better to do than read it. If not, now you do.
Last updated Wed Jan 26 2022 in Berkeley, CA
1: /thought/1000-views-of-stupidity.gmi
2: /thought/working-in-public.gmi
3: /thought/the-authority-of-writing.gmi
5: /thought/in-praise-of-rants.gmi
6: http://mama.indstate.edu/users/bones/WhyIHateWebLogs.html