Manlio Rules

For the past two years, i’ve only been posting here once a month in order to keep up the long list of archive links you see there on the left growing. Last month i finally missed it, and i think that means it’s time to go away for awhile, maybe forever. I’ve had this blog for 5.5 years, longer than i’ve been in SF, longer than i spent getting both my degrees, and it’s been very easy to see that the wind went out of my sails about 2-3 years into it. It isn’t that i don’t enjoy publicly sharing my thoughts anymore, it’s more that… no, actually i think it’s exactly that. I don’t enjoy publicly sharing my thoughts anymore. I don’t want to make a public record of dissatisfaction, and satisfaction is boring to document. “Everything’s fine!” is a boring post and “Everything sucks!” is an interesting post which then becomes a potential nightmare when I elaborate. If I’m going to be spending my time writing on the internet, i want it to be a focused analysis, critique, or discussion about what really drives me: design, music, technology, and all associated intersections. It’s why i’ve found time to answer a few questions a day on Quora, but can barely scrape together one blog post a month about how i’m doing (fine, btw. see? boring).

So, that’s it. I’m not saying i won’t be back, but most likely it’ll be at a new site, with a new goal. Until then…