Having a blog has felt pointless for a couple decades now. Bringing readers to a web page is akin to trying to capture attention while standing on a street corner in midtown Manhattan. Everybody is jaded and even clickbait fails to draw clicks. The Internet feels post-apocalyptic, with swarms of bots clicking on AI generated webpages. Content viewership is even determined by computers, not humans. Algorithms create comfortable, individualized echo chambers, one per person, to be sure users aren’t so mentally challenged that they leave the site and stop viewing ads.

So why blog?

• It seems more and more important to have human-generated content on the Internet, with minimal if any monetization.
• I need to start creating again as an antidote to consuming.
• Sharing my return to more active Buddhist practice as a dharma might help someone else along their own path.
• To challenge myself to articulate what I think, rather than worrying about how others will react.

Who am I?

I’m one of those GenX netizens who has watched the Internet grow from the ground up. I’m a bioinformatician and computational biologist in my day job. Outside work I have an ever-changing panoply of hobbies and interests, some of which may appear at various times on this blog. They have included Irish music, fountain pens, and fiber arts, but are subject to change on a whim.