Hello everybody. If you’re reading this, you’re probably a friend or family member who has been directed here by one of my social media posts. You’ve made it this far, which means you’ve overcome the algorithms and committed the cardinal sin of Facebook and Twitter, clicking away. My experiment worked, and now I hopefully have your attention.

I’m starting this ~blog~ because I have a desperate desire to escape from the feedback loops of social media as it stands. Social media ostensibly fills a very obvious human need and solves the problem of proximity in human relationships, but this noble core function has been corrupted and weaponized by monopolies. As a result, the internet has severely degraded in quality of experience. Just a little more than ten years ago, the internet was an atomized and wondrous place filled with weird different websites. I was a kid then, and it was fantastic! Now, in the words of some guy from Twitter named Tom Eastman, it is “a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four.” I regularly spend half my waking life enthralled by the shiny lights of the greatest ad-delivery machine ever built, and I’m sick of it. Yet that core function of social media, allowing us to continue our valued relationships without close proximity, makes it impossible to leave cold turkey. So I am turning to the archaic and mystical form of the blog to create an alternative for myself. Social media has robbed me of the internet literacy you’d expect from an elder Gen-Z son-of-a-UX-designer. I’m going to get it back by running a website. I will to scream into the void here. If you care about what I’m saying, you can comment here. It makes no difference if no one is listening. If we ever want to see a multi-layered and diverse internet, we have to break out of the clutches of social media. I’m starting now.

I have also (since attending NYU) been infected with an insidious belief that everything that comes out of my mouth is stupid and not worth saying. This is a paralyzing problem for someone who wants to be a professional creator of art, so my other purpose in starting this blog is to get over that. I’m going to write, and some people might read it, even if it is stupid and bad. By finally committing to doing this publicly, I hope to actually get good at this craft. So this is going to be rough at first. I’m already using too many commas. But stick with me, and hopefully in a year’s time you won’t regret it.

I’ve chosen an extremely basic layout for the site. Graphic design is assuredly not my passion. There will be more pages coming, for acting and writing and music and all the “oh shit I just got out of college and have no artistic prospects” website tropes you expect. But right now the important thing is just to get it out there. I’ll figure the rest out later.