Focus is Important, Focus is Everything
People throwing sand in the gears are a distraction from what truly matters
We're now only 9 days away from the league's last matches. On that day we'll know if the local team (across the road) got a domestic treble or just a "mickeymouse" trophy (or two such trophies). The birds are still nesting here and "Bot" ("Bottle") spends several hours each day watching me work. It's not just a pet but also a companion.
Focus on the topics which interest us has increased this year, as did our intensity. We've published some high-impact stories (over 50,000 readers per story) and we are managing to cope with DDoS-like crippling surges that try to slow down the site or simply do so without trying (we doubt it is the latter).
IBM is going down in a vortex of vomit. Microsoft has a ton of layoffs (after lying about it with false denials in social control media). GAFAM's pile of debt grows at alarming rates like 200 billion dollars per year in spite of the mass layoffs. They do not "invest in hey hi" (slop). They just lose a ton of money (and clients/users). Slop is like NFTs; nevertheless, a more "successful" (attractive to fools) derivative of the "crypto" Ponzi scheme. That too shall pass. It'll go with a "bang" (in Wall Street). So-called 'IT' workers who took stocks instead of real salaries (money) will cry for years.
Speaking of social control media, many countries come to realise it's about social control (usually by some foreign oligarch and/or hostile country). There are more restrictions and bans, so no wonder overall usage severely declined - it's connected to the latest wave of Microsoft layoffs. We've missed nothing by never participating in these brain-dead online games disguised as "popularity". Begrudgingly, our former solicitor Mark Lewis reached more or less the same conclusion and quit playing with "Twitter" (which is for masochists).
We are still running 6 multi-part series in tandem and have more things to publish than we have time to publish them, hence it boils down to triaging and prioritisation. We've culled some of the time-wasting activities. I'd rather watch a little bit of football than waste a moment checking "notifications" (I no longer check my E-mail except once in a few days or at most once a day). For urgent matters, there's the landline. It has zero spam and when it ring it's typically something important. █