This works really well towards increasing the net happiness of my life in non-work hours, even though I read email pretty regularly. I think it’s better for me than the other email management systems because I sit perched on a huge stream of incoming information by choice.

This doesn’t mean the converse, that if you haven’t gotten email from me until 9am that I consider you stupid or a waste of time, just that I’m using this as an overall metric.

A couple of months ago, I recovered from a long illness, and that made possible a lot of things that I’ve been wanting to do for a while. One of them is have the time to think about what I thought, and to write down those things in a way that made them accessible to other people. It’s a conceit, of course, to think that that’s a useful or desirable thing, but that’s, in effect, a conceit that I share with a lot of people writing blogs.

To some extent over the last couple of years, I’ve been living La Vita Fight Club, or being ‘the guy who may as well be dead and therefore doesn’t care about the consequences of his actions and is able to act with perfect freedom for the remainder of what will likely be a tragically short life’ (see the relevant article on everything2.) But that has changed, I now have the freedom to be the person I want to be as opposed to the person who manages and gets by.

And that’s an incredible experience. And that’s what this blog is about. It’s about describing the lessons I’ve learned, but it’s also about talking about the future in a way that makes sense. It’s basically also a self-help book written to you, my reader, but it’s not full of grating platitudes and asshatted hippy shit.

But, most of all, it’s about my life, which is full of goodness and wonder, but is also full of plans, schemes and cacophony. That’s why it’s pseudonymous, so that I can write this stuff without offending my employers, friends, relations, SO, and other people on the internet. I’m already in real life somewhat ‘internet famous’ for various reasons, but that’s another story.

I am willing to sell out. I am uninterested in consumer crap. I want to know what you think.

I am compassionate, but I believe that the spirit is renewed in fire. You may find some of my fire here.