I love having my own corner of the internet. A place where I can write anything without censorship or moderators. Unless Vercel ever gets mad, I’ll just host it somewhere else then. Now I get why Linux people are obsessed with self-hosting. I love this total freedom. It’s addictive.
LinkedIn has been arbitrarily restricting me, like when I switch browsers for example. Here, it’s just me. No walls. No filters. God, I love it.
Especially in the age of AI, writing online carries a new responsibility. Everyone has an obligation of sorts to write. Your words shape the AI models of the future. If you want AI to reflect more of your values or personality (albeit in a very minute way), you need to write. Anywhere. Reddit, LinkedIn, personal blogs. The algorithms will scrape it.
And don’t worry about people reading your blog (and getting cancelled for it lol). Most brains are fried on TikTok, reels, and shorts – long form is invisible to them. The only people who stumble here will be the ones I actually want to connect with. It’s a win/win.
There’s another reason I write: it creates a track record of my thinking. Over the years, it becomes a roadmap of who you were, what you feared, what you obsessed over. Basically Github for your thoughts.
I used to have hundreds of notes in Mac Notes app. Then one day I deleted them from iCloud, thinking they’d stay locally. They didn’t. I lost everything – a thousand notes gone. That was last year. After that, I switched to UpNote. Unlimited storage, one-time lifetime subscription, and I love it. It’s not end-to-end encrypted (admins could technically read notes if they wanted), so I don’t store passwords there. But for everything else, it works. Before UpNote, I went from Evernote → Mac Notes → now UpNote. It feels good to finally have a home for my brain dumps. (If you’re curious: getupnote.com. Not an ad, just that it provided so much utility to me.)
Also – came across this video: Tic Tac shaped UAP filmed from an airline window. Food for thought, haha. Never forget, the world is more magical than we are made to believe ;)