It is far too easy to contribute to the noise and the anger in the world. It certainly pleases the algorithms, but it doesn’t please me. I suspect you’re not much of a fan of it, either.
I’ve been thinking about how I want to approach this blog from now on and, I’m going to focus on writing about the things that I find fascinating, or exciting.
By doing this I hope it’ll force me to look for the joy in this world, no matter how hard it may be to find. We have to build the world we want to live in and that means moving towards the things that light us up.
This week I have enjoyed reading about how France is giving Microsoft the boot. I’ve also been enjoying a 3rd party Qobuz client for Linux, called QBZ. It is in some ways better than the native Qobuz app on the platforms it does support.
I’ve also been enjoying The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, a game I just didn’t understand what all the fuss was about when it arrived on the original Switch. It turns out the mistake I was making was in trying to finish it. I put around 40 hours into it back then, but it never clicked for me.
It is a game that just wants you to explore. To look under rocks, to talk to people and just soak in the world they have built.
That’s probably a lesson for life too. When you get to middle age it is easy to start becoming cynical, to stop wondering and stop being inquisitive.
Rediscovering the small web has reawakened some of that curiosity. I need to hold on to that.
