Kicking off the new year with a new site and a renewed profile The first week after the new year is always an odd one. Only a little going on, but a lot of preparation and thinking about what to do this year. That’s not quite how it turned out for me.
Following the debacle at Substack, I needed to migrate my newsletter (link) to a new platform. I spent far too much time researching options and tried out WordPress.
2023 came to a close, and I’m pretty glad to see the back of it I’m pretty happy that the year ended, if I’m honest. I went through a bit of a rough time with a couple of health-related things that, although expected, hit me harder than I thought they would.
I’ve been busy thinking about the following stages of my online presence and how I can consolidate a bunch of things into one more coherent structure.
I had a busy week finishing the teaching hours for the three institutions I work for. That took up a lot of time during the week and didn’t leave me much time for anything else.
I did participate in an early-stage meeting with a group of people around the Caribbean, but I can’t talk about that here now.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the strategy I would like to implement to develop my thoughts, work and ideas over the coming year.
Tolerating intolerance is not a good strategyWhen I started this newsletter, I deliberately chose a name that was both specific and generic at the same time. This choice might have felt anodyne then, and perhaps you didn’t even think about it. The title was there to express the feeling that I had about how digital technology was going to become further and further entrenched in our personal and professional lives. On that front, I was not wrong.