Closing Loops

Apologies for the recent silence on this channel. The pipeline is rather choked at present, and I haven't completed any interesting content for a while. Recent work has been fairly frustrating and time consuming, and this week I have a family funeral in Melbourne to attend. It's a fairly sad and awkward time. To be honest, I'm feeling exhausted, drained, and very fragile right now, but brimming with an effable desire to broadcast, communicate, and write, write, write.

I have some longer pieces in the works, so once I can chill out emotionally, and mentally, I will be focusing on getting back into the publishing flow again. There is a wellspring of motivation to complete several essays in my drafts folder, and some useful open source code that I look forward bringing to light. There are several short stories that may also surface, I'll let the whimsy of my editing decide that, in due time.

It has been suggested by several people that I put more energy into writing personal things here, and turn up the social drama dial somewhat, rather than focus on the abstract (and perhaps rather detached?) prose which seems to have dominated my writings for quite a while.

What do you think?

Certainly, I want to address the one way megaphone nature of this site, and put some effort into redesigning the publishing flow to start initiating more conversations with readers. I've had some incredible support and responses from lots of people regarding some of the things I have published here, and I definitely have the inspiration to take it further. Just that this week has turned out to be a particularly bad time to be starting this.