All of my daily microblog posts are also posted to Twitter as threads, and while I hate the existence of Twitter as a company/monopoly, composing posts as threads has been an incredibly useful constraint for me. I’ve also met some wonderful people on Twitter, so for now, I’ll keep putting these things in both places until the day that Twitter eventually meets its deserved fate.

Here’s the main thread of threads now pinned to my profile, and below it is that full list of threads as it stands today.

Here’s one where I fight in vain (I do that a lot) against one of my least favorite words:

The main reason for publishing all this is to learn in public/show my work. I do write about the metawork of that work. Eventually I will focus less on this but it’s a prominent topic at the moment.

The fact that this thread exists, or any of the writing in it, is thanks to a major attitude shift I had about work in 2020. I switched to a non-coercive approach. The shift has been so incredible and so “productive” that I’ve written a lot about it.

I have more useful outlets for my politics, but when emotions run high I do have takes. My persuasions are leftward but I’m open/gentle to conservative ideas and always gentle to people. After the murder of George Floyd I was angry about the media focus.

Here’s a more fun example of my political writing. It’s also an ode to my beloved city of Philadelphia.

I love photography. I hope I can help other people love it too. Here’s me trying to deliver a complete photography course in 5 tweets.

I love filmmaking/radio/storytelling and have devoted most of my professional life to it. Here’s one where I offer some beginner screenwriting tips.

I write other things about filmmaking too. This one is about 24 frames per second and some fundamental misconceptions about the medium.

Oh, and I LOVE mechanical tools, mostly cameras and watches, but other things too. Here’s me talking about one of my favorite mechanical things (there’s also video of me actually talking).

My love for mechanical things extends also to bicycles and trains and a general nostalgia/yearning for things that I believe society prematurely threw in the trash.

I’m definitely not all gears and springs. I also love—love isn’t the right word—let’s say I “have an unhealthy obsession with” software. I’m the chief of product at a web startup and I’m always thinking about ways to make the web better. Here’s one idea.

I have product ideas on a daily basis—way too many to ever dream of making them all. I’ve found writing about them and offering them as wishes to the world is a nice way to make the ideas not bother me so much. Here’s one example.

I’ve been “on my own” as a freelancer and eventually a business owner dealing with things like payroll and performance reviews for the past 10 years. I sometimes write about lessons learned from that experience.

I’ve been practicing various forms of meditation for a few decades. This doesn’t mean I’m “good at it,” whatever that means, but I do write about it in the hope it might leave some breadcrumbs for similar-minded folks looking for entrypoints to practice.