time should be spent interacting with experiences that enrich. whether this is people, places, things, etc. if one is not growing one is wasting time.

so automation should bring people closer to focusing on what is important but whatever gains that get made are immediately lost in the creation of a new process or activity or task that one must do.

ex/ i carry a small computer around with me that frees me from the desk, however, now i must manage all of my friends/network via several different social media services while navigating through endless privacy changes, designs, interfaces, policies, etc.

somewhere on my drive today i had a vision about existence. it was one of those hippy type deals but without all the drugs–just straight, sober, mind-numbing traffic.

it was about islands and inhabiting them. how we’re all rebuilding tools over and over and over again.

on the site for the atom editor i did a quick search for vue.js packages (because, mostly, i am experimenting with a vue/electron app) and found the predictable millions of results (slight exaggeration but also mostly true). i haven’t used any of these so i can’t review them, however, on first glance - what is the best? superficially it’d be the one with the most downloads and/or stars – depending on the ratio of downloads to stars that you personally judge by.

i realize my obsolescence and my strange desire for something that never existed or, if it did exist, ceased to exist a long time ago.

i’ve been setting up YaCy servers like gangbusters but for no actual reason that i can discern.

sure, i believe in the power of decentralization, however, the cause seems lost. people couldn’t care less about privacy and the power struggle as long as they can find cute things on facebook. but now i just seem bitter.

broke, busted, home.

off twitter, facebook, etc. done. there’s no point - not in any old person angsty sense but, rather, in the sense that it doesn’t profit the individual in their goals.

one is rewarded for their conformity to a standard that’s consistent only with the medium that they’re operating in and all the while you’re being surveilled and sold. enough has been written on this so there’s no use to adding more to the stacks except to add my hatred of the self censoring that occurs on it. whether this is in the form of the instagram “my life is awesome” 9 hour posed photo of you jogging or the excessively rewritten tweet that gets immediately deleted if it gets no traction within the first 10 minutes of its existence - and so we worry.