I sure do enjoy a ahotcupoftea. Here is a bit about Anthony.

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Just a dude behind a screen, trying to figure out this whole “life” thing.

I am not sure how much of my personal information I want to just put out there on the internet, so instead of going into detail about exactly who I am, I’d rather just ramble on about other random stuff ;)

Why I started this site:

To be honest, I am still not 100% sure and figuring this out as I go, but I think its a variety of reasons to include:

1. I’ve often wanted to try to write, whether it be a blog, a journal, or a novel. But every time I have tried it in the past (usually with pen and paper) I ussually just stare and the page, with the feeling that what I write has to be perfect - and essentially leaving it blank. A couple of other “online friends” have their own blog and essentially motivated me to try it out for myself.

2. Often I struggle with organizing my thoughts, feeling like I am constantly jumping from one thought to the next. Forgetting my ideas as they are crowded out with the next. I’m hoping by writing them down I’ll both have an “archive” to reference back to them in the future. Also, I think just the act of writing the thoughts down actually helps to formulate them better and allows you to reflect and chew on the thought in a deeper way then if you were just letting your thoughts roam as normal.

3. I have a tendency to start random “projects” (I would consider this little blog endeavor one of them), and it’s rare that I ever finish them - especially if they take any longer than a couple of weeks. I will often get extremely “pulled in” to whatever new project I am working on. The project will be my obsession for as long as I can keep interest, but as soon as I start to burn out I will quickly lose interest and move on to the next shiny thing. Long story short I have a problem with commitment. Because of that, I tend to have a lot of half finished projects - so I am hoping to pull some of those more recent projects into this site as a sort of “documentation”, as well as add any others when I end up down that rabbit hole.

Some of my ideals:

1. I strongly believe in the open source community (and more specifically the ‘CopyLeft’ approach) and what it stands for. I think that our digital (and non-digital) world has become increasingly engulfed by “big tech”. This has lead to so many sociological, political, and economic issues that would be too long to get into for this page. And this goes well beyond just “open source”, but the idea that we can build things that actually benefit people, and are not structured around this capitalistic model, is really compelling to me.

2. While I enjoy a lot of the luxuries that the modern world offers, I have always felt for the need to simplify my life. Less things, less responsibilities, less worries, etc. I don’t always live by this ideal, but it is something I have always felt, even as a kid. Our society has this mentality that you always need more. Advertisements bombard you everywhere, making you realize how much you need this new thing you never new existed. Everyone around you hustling to get a promotion or a better paying job. The list goes on. Our society makes it extremely difficult to just be content - something I have been working towards my whole life. As soon as we hit the next milestone, we are searching for what is next. And I am not saying it isn’t warranted - because many people are struggling to get by on the salaries they make. But why does our society ask so much of us. Why can’t we live a meager life, and be comfortable - with at least a roof over our head, food on the table, and medical care when we need it. I pretty much have just started rambling at this point, but in short: I feel like we need to learn to be comfortable with less, but also push our social systems to support our communities better so that we can be comfortable with less.

3. Tying into my previous two points a bit, but recently I have been thinking quite a bit about how much the online and digital space consumes our modern lives. While I try my best not to do social media and the whole “doom scrolling” thing, I still find myself every once in a while watching a bunch of random Youtube videos for a couple hours - especially since they added those ‘shorts’. Also, I used to use Reddit (now switched to Lemmy/Piefed) to look up various niche things, but even that sometimes gets you just scrolling for hours. While I consider myself not nearly as bad as some other people I know (because I make a conscious effort not to), it’s still a problem in my opinion how much time is spent in front of a screen. And I don’t say this as one of those “technology is bad” people - but I really do think that we, as a society, have a huge issue. I think that we miss out on so much because we are so comfortable in the 4 walls of our house, that we miss out on so much. And maybe it’s just me being a “not so social” of a person, but I feel like without TV, computers, and cell phones able to constantly keep us entertained and pacified, we would be far more likely to get outside and experience other types of experiences.

Consolidation to this platform:

I have previously tried to use Patreon to act in the same manner of my intent for this site - but in the spirit of simplification (not having likes, comments, or viewing stats) and having everything centralized somewhere where I feel comfortable posting about whatever random thoughts I want to post about, I have decided to try and slowly move it over here. But It will probably take some time (if I get to it at all) to move over some of the project posts from over there to here, so I figured I would just share a link.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/UnfinishedProjects ¹

I’ll probably create a Lemmy or Piefed account to post some of my articles at some point, but I don’t know yet. If I do, I’ll add them here. Part of me wonders if I should just let my blog be tucked away and not bother with sharing anything. While obviously some part of me wants the validation/attention, the other part of me feels like trying to share my blog posts is sort of defeating the purpose of the whole thing. Will it just become chasing the views, rather than just writing for the sake of writing?