Shifting My Bits
I seem to continually make the same mistake: I get hung up on something, sit on it for awhile, and digest it down to a grossly oversimplified 140-character treatise that manages to insult half of my Twitter followers and alienate the rest. It’s a small problem.
I’ll often promise to think things over and come back with a cleanly written, well-argued blog post — but that never seems to happen (as it turns out, blogging is hard).
Inevitably, the thoughts will persist and I’ll continue to chew them over until I reach a fork in the road: abandon my opinions and remain a wet noodle flopping about awkwardly or take a stand and spend a bit of time clarifying the murky butter that forms my thoughts.
Often, I noodle out; WordPress is a cruel mistress and I really hate designing the silly interstitial images that my (old) blog consumed. Irked by the UI, I’ll retreat to the safe, weathered cloister that is vim — keeping my hands on the keyboard for longer than four seconds feels great after an overdose of WIMP.
But I’m sick of being a floppy strand of angel hair (or even one of those cute tri-colored wagon wheels). Piping my opinions to /dev/null has gotten me nowhere and, for fuck’s sake, I’ve got a lot on my mind— goodness knows what sorts of health problems I’ll run into if I don’t flush my brain on a regular basis.
As a result, I’ve made a concession. In particular, I’ve shifted my bits from a machine under my control to one owned by a group of people whom, for the longest time, I’ve dismissed as tight-pants-wearing, thrift-store-shopping, master-lazer-praising, williamsburg-loitering hipster robots (never mind the fact that I wear skinny jeans and listen to Band of Horses when nobody is around). It’s a concession I’ve made in the interest of maximizing productivity over my all-important geek cred— besides, I can always make up the difference by spending a bit more time configuring snort.
Curmudgeon though I am, I simply can’t deny that Tumblr makes blogging fun again. Besides, in my advanced age, Tumblr’s use of unnecessarily large fonts does wonders for my eye strain. Life is good, it would seem.
Though this semi-inaugural post is virtually devoid of content, I intend to share many more of my somewhat “controversial” opinions in the coming days: articles ranging from why Windows 8 will bring about the destruction of human civilization to comparisons of modern internships and the indentured servants of the eighteenth century. I’ve got a lot to say and I intend to say it, by gum. I hope you’ll stick around!
Your startup sucks,
Brandon
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